On Sat 02 Dec 2023 at 07:06:37 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 02:52:25AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > direct dependencies of packages which haven't been downloaded, > > install. I need to download those packages. > > These should be a straightforward way to do that or an easy hack. > > lbrtchx > > I /think/ this hack might involve iterations until you hit a fixed > point. > > See -- package dependencies are listed in the package itself, so > you know your original package's direct dependencies. Off you go, > download those, look into those packages, find the dependencies... > and off you go, download the dependencies's dependencies. > > Until you reach the fixed point. > > There's one package, apt-cache, which can look at a pre-made complete > dependencies's network. But to update that database you have to be > online... > > Sounds like quite the fun.
Would it not be more straightforward to download APT's lists, and copy them to the unconnected machine. # apt-get update will bitch and moan about Release files, but still recreate the .bin caches, and $ apt-get -s -d install foo will list all the missing dependencies (± --no-install-recommends to taste) in one fell swoop. Cheers, David.
