Hello This is a ver long post (in HTML!) and I'm not sure what is relevant.
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Merhebi, Bob <bobmerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you (any of you) care to guide me on how to download the packages so > I can make the install on the non-conected system, that would be greatly > appreciated; otherwise I will refer to the ubuntu forums! > If this is what you want, then try the following: - access a computer with Internet access that uses the _exact_ same distribution and architecture as your non-connected computer - go to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and delete all the archives that are present there - select all desired packages in synaptic and check the 'download only' option; initiate the download for a _fresh_ LyX and LaTeX installation - go to /var/cache/apt/archives/ and copy all the packages to a USB stick - access the computer without internet access - copy the files to /var/cache/apt/archives/ - go to synaptic and install the packages - if any downloaded packages are missing then repeat the procedure for those And yes, this question is likely more pertinent to Ubuntu forums. Liviu
