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Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . .

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On Sun, Feb 26, 2023 at 05:28:44PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
>  Basically, I am trying to download all packages that are part of the
> installation dependencies of a given one into a directory of my
> choosing to then install packages on an unexposed machine.

The tricky part here is that the packages on machine A are not necessarily
the same as on machine B.  So, installing package P1 on machine A may
need dependencies P2, P3 and P4.  But on machine B, it may need dependencies
P3, P4 and P5 instead.

If you ignore that, then the obvious answer is:

A# apt-get --download-only --reinstall install P1
A# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
A# scp *.deb B:/var/cache/apt/archives/
A# ssh root@B

B# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
B# apt-get install ./P1.deb

That should utilize the cached dependent packages P2, P3, P4 which are
located in /v/c/a/a on machine B.

If additional dependencies are needed, you'll have to fetch those by
hand.

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where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin"  and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-02-26 18:30 +0100
  Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-02-26 19:10 +0100
    Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-02-26 23:10 +0100
    Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin"  and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk> - 2023-02-27 22:50 +0100
  Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2023-02-26 23:20 +0100
  Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are "pkgcache.bin"  and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2023-02-27 04:10 +0100
    Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 01:20 +0100
      Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 18:00 +0100
        Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 18:10 +0100
          Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2023-03-01 20:40 +0100
            Re: where are the actual ".deb" packages? all I see are  "pkgcache.bin" and "srcpkgcache.bin" . . . Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-03-01 21:40 +0100

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