[GLLUG] Debian Dependencies

[Omalley_s]

links, lynx and elinks i have actually had to use them all at one point or another. There is also an html to text utility like html2text. 

Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:

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.
-- 

                                Chick
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