On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:09 AM davidson <david...@freevolt.org> wrote: > > On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 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. > > Like Roberto Sanchez wrote, this sounds like a use-case for the > apt-offline package (which I have not used).
For what it's worth, I was very happy with apt-offline last time I used it but that was a couple of years ago. It did exactly what I expected and what OP seems to want: It allows one to keep an offline Debian machine up-to-date and install software complete with all necessary dependencies.
