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Ubuntu offline software installation

Asked by SWAGATAK GHOSH

Anyone can help me how to install ubuntu software,like vlc latest version or open office latest version or the audio and video plugin offline. actually i donot have internet in my home. I want to download them from outside and install them . Is it possible in ubuntu 10.10? Thanks

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#1

yes you can. just download the deb or tar file and save onto a flash drive or whatever your computer is capable of reading from, then copy onto your hard drive and install them.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#2

Downloading packages by hand involves manually resolving dependencies, which is a lot of stuffing about.

There is a convenient method for doing this, using the apt-on-cd program if you have access to another ubuntu box somewhere else, which does have internet access

http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/

Also there is another project which can work from windows machines, called keryx:
http://keryxproject.org/tutorial/#on_windows

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

By dependency, I mean that package "A" requires B C and D, but you want to get package A. So you (using the manual method) will download package A, take it back to your computer, then it install it... and it will complain about missing B C and D.

So you download B C and D. But it turns out that B C and D require E F G H I J, so you have to go back and download E F G H I and J.

After doing this a few times, you get all the pieces you need, but get annoyed at the complexity of the process. Keryx and apt-on-CD try to automate this process for you.

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SWAGATAK GHOSH (swagatak) said : 		#4

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.

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mahes s (mhselr) said : 		#5

How to work with apt-on-cd.