On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 01:25:01AM +0200, Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 19 August 2021 at 01:01:09, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I need to download a package to install on a machine that is currently > > air-gapped. > > Do you not even trust the connectivity to give it a proxy server?
At the moment it doesn't have any connectivity. I'm trying to acquire the packages I need to make wifi work, after which it will no longer be air-gapped. > > > I have to download an i386 package for chimaera on an AMD64 beowulf > > machine. ... ... > > How do I go about doing the download? > > I don't think you're asking "how do I fetch packages using wget so I can then > install them using dpkg". Actually, that is exactly what I was asking. It is so easy to get lost in a maze of directories, all alike. I have now managed to get those packages, so things should work out. -- hendrik > I'm assuming you're asking "how can I work out > which dependent packages I should get at the same time, to make this whole > process as painless as possible", so my suggestion is that you start from > https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/packagename and look at everything > labelled with "dep". > > Check on your chimaera machine whether these are installed, and then you know > (at the first level) whether you need to install some of those first. That was helpful. It tured out to depend ofono (though I have no need for what ofono does, it was a dependency, so I better have it. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
