On Sat, Dec 02, 2023 at 02:52:25AM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: > direct dependencies of packages which haven't been downloaded, > install. I need to download those packages. > These should be a straightforward way to do that or an easy hack.
I'm still struggling to figure out what the X is in this gigantic X-Y problem. Do you have a .deb file, and you want to install it, along with all of its dependencies? If that's the X, then you do this: apt install ./myfile.deb That's it.