[GLLUG] Debian Dependencies

[Clay Dowling]

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Clay 
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From: Bryan Laur
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2014 1:09 PM
To: Chick Tower;
Cc: linux-user at egr.msu.edu;
Subject:Re: [GLLUG] Debian Dependencies

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.
Hopefully they will have all of the packages you ever need.
https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/

Trying to do anything else would be rather complicated.




On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:48 PM, 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.
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                               Chick
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