Manual Download of .debs

[Matthew S-H]

The modems aren't working because they're WinModems.  As far as I can 
tell, there isn't much I can do for a workaround for this.

Is there any place that I can find a script or something that would 
automatically download all dependencies or indicate the dependency tree 
that I could run on a Mac or Win box?  If there is, that would be 
awesome.  It would make manually using dpkg a lot easier.


~Matt


On Mar 12, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Bill Christiansen wrote:

> It's certainly possible to browse to the online repositories and
> manually download debs for installation and then install with
> dpkg -i <package>
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/
>
> It's not a recommended way of installing apps as you can run into
> dependency issues but if you can't get online and need a particular
> program to help get your modem working give it a go. I would recommend
> trying gnome-ppp from the universe.
>
> On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:02 -0500, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> But none of the modems on any of the machines will work with Ubuntu 
>> :(.
>>
>>
>> On Mar 10, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Noah Dain wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:31:56 -0500, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I currently don't have internet access on Ubuntu.  This is because
>>>> Ubuntu is not compatible with my modem right now.  I can easily,
>>>> however, transfer files (such as .deb files) to my Ubuntu machine 
>>>> via
>>>> an external hard drive (ie:  my iPod).
>>>> Here is my question:
>>>> Is there any way to download the .deb files from repositories via 
>>>> ftp
>>>> or something?  I can download them using either my MacOS X computer 
>>>> or
>>>> my WinXP computer.  The XP computer currently quadruple boots into
>>>> Ubuntu, XP, Debian, and Gentoo.  And the Mac will (once I set it up)
>>>> triple-boot into MacOS X, Ubuntu, and Darwin.
>>>> So, if any of you could tell me a method of accessing repositories 
>>>> via
>>>> ftp downloaders (such as a web browser), I'd appreciate it.
>>>>
>>>> ~Matt
>>>>
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>>> http://higgs.djpig.de/ubuntu/www/
>>>
>>> ran across this a little while back.  Looks like the person that set
>>> this up ported the debian web repository interface to ubu.
>>>
>>> However, since you have other machines running ubu, you could copy 
>>> the
>>> .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives.
>>>
>>> but really, 3 machines and no local network?  you could setup a nat
>>> connection on winxp or something and plug the ubu box into that and
>>> use the network normally.  It may even be possible to connect the two
>>> machines via a serial, parallel, or usb cable and run ip over it.
>>>
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>>>
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