The deb files have everything you need.  They might have dependencies,
though. (i.e. you can't install Gnome without X, so it will automatically
try to fetch the X deb files for you).
run:
apt-get -d --print-uris install package
(replace "package" with your desired package).
You will get a list of packages uris to download elsewhere and copy to the
knoppix machine.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Aug 12, 3:36 pm, Conrad Lawes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Knoppix is Debian derivative.  As such, you use apt-get to install and
> > remove packages.
> > Debian style  packages use the .deb file extension.
> >
> > Example,
> >
> > To install firefox:
> > sudo apt-get install firefox
> >
> > To install the Norton Commander-like  package:
> > sudo apt-get install mc
> >
> > To remove firefox:
> > sudo apt-get remove firefox
> >
> > To view the list of packages installed:
> >
> > sudo dpkg  --list
> >
> > To see if  Mozilla Thunderbird is installed:
> >
> > sudo dpkg --list | grep -i thunderbird
> >
> > You can also use dpkg to install a DEB package, example
> >
> > sudo dpkg --install  skype40.deb
> >
> > Conrad Lawes
>
>
> Wait, these .DEB files are very small. They don't appear to contain
> any files; just information about which files need to be downloaded.
> That presents a problem for me. The machine I am running Linux on does
> not have Internet. I am downloading the files manually on another
> machine and putting them on USB drives.
>
> I'm assuming Linux does not have an equivilant of the windows
> registry?  Or at least I'm not familiar with one.
> >
>


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          Daniel

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