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

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