On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 16:32:47 +0800 Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of > the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an > option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not > find, from the man entry for apt-get, how to download the package and > all of its dependencies; that is, to download the particular package, > and, its dependency packages, so that they can be stored, and, > installed (or, tried to be installed) on different systems as wanted. Try 'sudo apt-get install --download-only packagename'. Any downloaded packages should end up in /var/cache/apt/archives. Petter -- "I'm ionized" "Are you sure?" "I'm positive."
