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Installing CLI applications Manually

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Installing CLI applications Manually

#1 Post by Paul2 »

Hi all,

First off, newbie to Linux and this forum, additionally, apologies if asking in the wrong section
or this has already been covered.

My default distro is Debian 10 (64 bit) and I often have to load it on several computers for NPO's.
That part is easy, as I install at my office where there is good, fast internet.
Many of them don't have a good internet connection or is metered.

The problem comes in when they want to load something extra, from time to time.

So what I was thinking is, install them on my "master" computer (using the package manager), then using a USB stick,
take the compiled files, including any required libs, help files etc, and installing it manually on their computers.

So as an example, let's assume they need the "ladspa-dev" package.
According to https://packages.debian.org/stretch/ladspa-sdk, the required libs are listed,
or I could use "ldd".
However, as to folder tree and other required files, can I assume the following is a complete list:
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd ... k/filelist

So armed with the above info, can I assume that if I copy over the required files to the correct folders (using a Bash script),
then all will be good?

I understand that with a GUI application, it will be more complicated, but for CLI only apps this should work?

TIA

Paul.


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Re: Installing CLI applications Manually

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#4 Post by Paul2 »

Many thanks to both arochester and dilberts_left_nut.
Those are certainly great options, will investigate.
They will be much easier than a completely manual method.

Paul.

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#5 Post by kedaha »

Or get the full DVD set/s burn them to DVD and add them to the /etc/apt/sources.list on those computers using apt-cdrom.
Alternatively, there's a way to use a USB stick instead of DVDs but that's a bit more complicated. See, for example this post.
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No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian!  rms would be proud.

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#6 Post by Paul2 »

Thank you kedaha, I like the apt-cdrom method as well.

Between all of the above options, there will be one that will suit my needs and expertise level, or rather lack thereof.

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