Hi! [email protected] wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Dear list, > >I need to download a bunch of udeb packages from bookworm i386 repository. >Thus I >created a list with the package names, but obviously I did not do correctly. > >On my amd64 system I edited the sources.list and added > >deb [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free >non-free- >firmware > >deb-src [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib >non-free non- >free-firmware > >Then did an "apt update" and afterwards I tried > >xargs apt -d install --reinstall < /home/username/mypackagelist.txt
That's simple - udebs are in a separate component of the archive that you haven't added! Try deb [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main main/debian-installer contrib non-free non-free- firmware deb-src [arch=i386] http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main main/debian-installer contrib non-free non- free-firmware and you'll see the udebs. *However*, as already mentioned elsewhere: be *really* careful doing this. The udebs are kept in a separate component to be used by the installer only, and are generally not meant to be installed directly into a normal system. You could seriously screw up your system... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...
