On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 10:01:54PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 21:55:42 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > apt install ./myfile.deb > > That requires you to be online, aka "exposed mode". The OP only > exposes a live USB to the outside world, not their "real" system. > > I dimly recollect something called apt-move, but I never needed > to use it. Back in the days of dial-up, when I had a real job, > I would upgrade my desk's tower, copy the (uncleaned) archives/ > directory onto a Zip drive, take it home and install the .debs > onto my home desktop, configured identically, with dpkg.
In that case, use apt-get instead of apt. That way the downloaded .deb files will not be removed afterward. Then you can just sweep 'em up from /var/cache/apt/archives, copy them to a stack of floppies, put the floppies in a box, tie the box to a trained ferret, send the ferret across town.... If the OP doesn't have a same-release, same-architecture connected system to use for this purpose, then I don't have an answer. I don't deal with this stone-age crap any longer, and I am unable to express how *happy* I am that this is the case.