Hi,
I have an air gaped[1] device. ( Devuan )
How do you manage to install packages/software on off-line[1:1] device ?
I’ve heard of apt-offline but it seem to bug and I don’t know if it’s still maintained (last release two years ago)
of course I’ve tried manually but the dependencies relations are too crazy to do that fully manually
Dependence tree (not complete even) to install for example apt-offline
├── Depends
│ ├── Depends
│ │ ├── Depends
│ │ │ ├── Depends
│ │ │ │ └── python3-dbg_3.9.2-3_amd64.deb
│ │ │ ├── libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u14_amd64.deb
│ │ │ ├── python3-pycurl-dbg_7.43.0.6-5_amd64.deb
│ │ │ └── python-pycurl-doc_7.43.0.6-5_all.deb
│ │ ├── python3-httplib2_0.18.1-3_all.deb
│ │ └── python3-pycurl_7.43.0.6-5_amd64.deb
│ ├── iso-codes_4.6.0-1_all.deb
│ ├── python3-pysimplesoap_1.16.2-3_all.deb
│ └── python-apt-common_2.2.1_all.deb
├── python3-apt_2.2.1_amd64.deb
└── python3-debianbts_3.1.0_all.deb
Any ideas ?
Thanks.
air gaped, off-line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking) ↩︎ ↩︎
Switch to a distro lineage whose package manager builds in the necessary facilities? Someone’s already mentioned Nix, and Gentoo has the
--fetchonlyswitch for Portage which will download (but not install) everything required for a specified package including dependencies, so you can copy all of the files to an external drive at once.