Hi,
I have an air gaped[1] device. ( Devuan )
How do you manage to install packages/software on off-line[1:1] device ?
I’ve heard of apt-offline but it seem to bug and I don’t know if it’s still maintained (last release two years ago)
of course I’ve tried manually but the dependencies relations are too crazy to do that fully manually
Dependence tree (not complete even) to install for example apt-offline
├── Depends
│ ├── Depends
│ │ ├── Depends
│ │ │ ├── Depends
│ │ │ │ └── python3-dbg_3.9.2-3_amd64.deb
│ │ │ ├── libcurl4-gnutls-dev_7.74.0-1.3+deb11u14_amd64.deb
│ │ │ ├── python3-pycurl-dbg_7.43.0.6-5_amd64.deb
│ │ │ └── python-pycurl-doc_7.43.0.6-5_all.deb
│ │ ├── python3-httplib2_0.18.1-3_all.deb
│ │ └── python3-pycurl_7.43.0.6-5_amd64.deb
│ ├── iso-codes_4.6.0-1_all.deb
│ ├── python3-pysimplesoap_1.16.2-3_all.deb
│ └── python-apt-common_2.2.1_all.deb
├── python3-apt_2.2.1_amd64.deb
└── python3-debianbts_3.1.0_all.deb
Any ideas ?
Thanks.
air gaped, off-line
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking) ↩︎ ↩︎
You could setup a new, empty VM and use it as a download only machine for packages, although it makes the process a bit more complicated.
Yes, but it’s not reliable. because even if you use a bare linux vm to download the packages and dependency, you never know if the online will have already a dependence that the offline system do not have.
no, the only way is to force the dw of the already downloaded package.