Security Updates for system with no internet access

Asked by 37Shannon

Created 14.04 system in a ESX virtual machine which had access to Internet. Migrated virtual machine to ESX host which has no internet access (internal-only system). I did not install apt-offline because I didn't know I needed it. Procedures I've read seem to presume you installed apt-offline. Can I do something like download the apt-offline package on the Internet-accessible Ubuntu without installing it there, and transfer the package to the non-Internet-accessible Ubuntu? If so, how?

The goal here is when I see automatic security updates occur for my Internet-accessible systems, I want to apply those same updates, whatever they were without having to know WHAT they were, to the non-Internet-accessible system.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Can you not make a LAN based package source to update from, like a WSUS server?

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said :
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Just copy the deb files into /var/cache/apt/archives Then try running update.

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37Shannon (bill-stephens) said :
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To "actionparsnip": Sure. Is there a procedure I can follow?

To "ubfan": What deb files? Where do they download to?

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37Shannon (bill-stephens) said :
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.