[GLLUG] Debian Dependencies

[Patrick Goupell]

On 08/28/2014 01:48 PM, Chick Tower 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.

links nad links2 are in the debian repositories.

Do a search for "debian package links links2" and you should be able to 
find / download what you need.

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Patrick Goupell

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