On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <pe...@ludikovsky.name> wrote: > Hello, > > Yes, and no. You can run `apt-get -d install iceape`, and it will > download the package, and the missing dependencies, to > /var/cache/apt/archives/. However, if you want to install something on a > machine without internet access you might be better off with apt-medium > [1], although I never used that. > > And I'm sorry, but I don't understand your second question. I assume > that you think that the security repository is independent of the > others, but that's not so. A Debian installation usually uses 3 > repositories together: > * A "base" repo, containing the release packages > * A "security" repo, containing security fixes for those packages > * An "updates" repo that serves updates for non-security relevant bugs > > As always, we might be able to better help you if you can give us a > description of what you want to do. > > Regards, > /peter > > Am 25.02.2016 um 09:32 schrieb Bret Busby: >> On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <pe...@ludikovsky.name> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Searching for a single .deb & trying to install that is the way >>> proprietary systems handle it. With Debian, and most other Linux >>> distros, there's repositories, and tools to handle dependencies. Open a >>> command line / terminal and enter >>> sudo apt-get install iceape >>> >>> It will pull iceape, and all dependencies, from the Debian repos, and >>> install them. >>> >>> Updates are handled similarily. >>> >>> Regards, >>> /peter >>> >>> Am 25.02.2016 um 07:08 schrieb Bret Busby: >>>> Hello. >>>> >>>> I searched for a .deb package, for iceape, so that I could download >>>> the package for the iceape suite, to try to install it. >>>> >>>> Ahat I found, is apparently submerged in a "security pool". >>>> >>>> I found that what is apparently provided as the iceape suite .deb >>>> package, is just something that has endless unsatisfiable >>>> dependencies. >>>> >>>> Is an installable .deb package for the iceape suite, available? >>>> >>> >>> >> >> Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of >> the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an >> option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not >> find, from the man entry for apt-get, how to download the package and >> all of its dependencies; that is, to download the particular package, >> and, its dependency packages, so that they can be stored, and, >> installed (or, tried to be installed) on different systems as wanted. >> >> Also, does a means exist, for specifying a particular repository for >> only the particular instantiation of the command, so that, for >> example, as iceape is only in the security pool repository, to specify >> only for the installation of iceape (or, if it can be done, for the >> download of iceape and its dependencies, to a directory on the >> computer), the particular repository path? >> >> > >
Okay. Explicitly, what I want to try to do, and, the reason that I want to know whether the repository can be specified for only, and, limited to, a single instantiation of a download or install command, is to try to install iceape on a Ubuntu installation. iceape has functionality that seamonkey does not have, and, the specific functionality that I want, is the primary reason for me wanting to try this. I do not know whether iceape and seamonkey can be concurrently installed on the same system. With the LTS for Debian 6 (which I believe to be the latest version operating system for which iceape is an available package), due to end on Monday, I want to try an installation on a system, to install iceape on a new installation of UbuntuMATE 15.10, so that I would install UbuntuMATE on the system, and then try to install iceape. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
