[GLLUG] Debian Dependencies
Chick Tower
c.e.tower at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 13:48:48 EDT 2014
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for any advice.
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Chick
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