On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 05:28:44PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Basically, I am trying to download all packages that are part of the > installation dependencies of a given one into a directory of my > choosing to then install packages on an unexposed machine.
The tricky part here is that the packages on machine A are not necessarily the same as on machine B. So, installing package P1 on machine A may need dependencies P2, P3 and P4. But on machine B, it may need dependencies P3, P4 and P5 instead. If you ignore that, then the obvious answer is: A# apt-get --download-only --reinstall install P1 A# cd /var/cache/apt/archives A# scp *.deb B:/var/cache/apt/archives/ A# ssh root@B B# cd /var/cache/apt/archives B# apt-get install ./P1.deb That should utilize the cached dependent packages P2, P3, P4 which are located in /v/c/a/a on machine B. If additional dependencies are needed, you'll have to fetch those by hand.
