<div style="font-size:10pt;"><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">I recommend vi. Html is just a text file with special markup, and vi will let you view that text. Your system already has vi.</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Clay </p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">------ Original message------</p> <p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>From: </b>Bryan Laur</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Date: </b>Thu, Aug 28, 2014 1:09 PM</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>To: </b>Chick Tower;</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Cc: </b>linux-user@egr.msu.edu;</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><b>Subject:</b>Re: [GLLUG] Debian Dependencies</p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"> </p><div dir="ltr"><div><div>My suggestion would be to download the debian DVDs and copy the contents to a thumb drive. You can then use this thumb drive as an apt source.<br></div>Hopefully they will have all of the packages you ever need.<br>
<a href="https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/">https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/</a><br><br></div>Trying to do anything else would be rather complicated.<br><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Chick Tower <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:c.e.tower@gmail.com" target="_blank">c.e.tower@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Because all I wanted was a small distro that had GRUB 2, I installed the Debian stable (Wheezy) network installation on a PC. Because configuring GRUB 2 is new to me, I found a couple of tutorials that I saved as HTML files. This version of Debian does not have a web browser, as far as I can tell. It has no X-Windows, and I want to keep it that way, so I would like a text-based browser.<br>
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I have no plans to connect Debian to any network. Do any of you know of a way or a program or something that would allow me to download the packages for a browser (or any package, really) and its dependencies, so that I could then transfer them via a thumb drive to the Debian installation and then install them with dpkg? I know I can look on-line to find dependencies and download them one-by-one, but if there's some way to do it all at once, just as if I used apt-get to download but not install a package, it would be easier.<br>
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Please don't suggest another distro, unless it's very basic yet has man pages, editors, GRUB 2, and a text-based browser. I considered Arch, as it has a very basic, non-GUI installation to start, but it's bigger than what I want. I considered Bodhi, a stripped-down Ubuntu-based distro, but it's too big, too. All I want right now is an easy way to download a Debian package and it's dependencies for installation later, and it would be nice if I could segregate them from the rest of the downloading system so I would know what to copy.<br>
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Thanks for any advice.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Chick<br>
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