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#5768: Download dependencies option on packages.ubuntu.com
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Written by soulcheck the 26 Mar 08 at 12:18.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
It would be nice to have an option to download a desired package along with it dependencies on packages.ubuntu.com (I mean using browser, not a package manager)
Sure, aptitude, synaptic or whaterever else is a better way to manage mackages, but with no internet connection this way could be faster.
Obviously choosing all dependencies without any filtering would cause to download a big part of dependency tree, so this option could accept some kind of list of packages which user already has installed on his system as input.
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blindvic wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 15:21
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I think of this: Synaptic generates a Python script. Running the script on other machine with Internet access (Windows with OpenOffice with built-in Python; or other Linux machine with Python installed) would download all needed packages into a singles directory. Than you just show this directory to Synaptic and it installs the packages, and also updates the package database information.
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soulcheck wrote on the 26 Mar 08 at 16:06
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It's more a workaround than a real solution (it might help in my particular case, though :)). First of all it makes you use oo on windows, which might or might not be possible (lots of internet cafees forbid installing anything or connecting your own usb drive with your oo installation).
How it could be done is:
1. User sends output of dpkg -l (or anything similar) to the server.
2. Server parses it, chooses which packages need to be installed and presents list to the user.
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blindvic wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 07:58
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>it makes you use oo on windows
it was an example. python is installed on almost every system
>User sends output of dpkg -l (or anything similar) to the server
But if there is no internet connection on target machine?
If you mean that the output will be sent from computer that internet connection, then i think script way will be more flexible.
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soulcheck wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 08:43
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Python is far from being installed on almost every system, and certainly far from being installed on public internet access machines.
Besides how a script which requires a specific environment to be launched is more flexible than plain text file which requires only a browser to upload/paste it?
The point of my idea was to shift, if possible weight from user's machine to the server.
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FkJ wrote on the 20 Apr 08 at 19:55
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It would be very helpful to download a package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/ with its dependencies.
Some use cases:
- In the university I study there is no Linux at all. So lets suppose I take my notebook with Ubuntu there and then I need to install a new application on it. I could simply access http://packages.ubuntu.com/ from windows, download the package I need with its dependencies, copy to flash drive and install on my Ubuntu notebook.
- Users with dialup: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7310/
Solutions like APTonCD works, but they doesn't give freedom to the user, as it and depends on another Ubuntu installation, so when he needs a package he will have to ask a friend or copy it from his Ubuntu installation at work for example. A download with dependencies option at http://packages.ubuntu.com/ would let him download what he needs anytime, anywhere.
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