update offline.

[zerdna]

update offline.

Hello.
Could make an update, package or system offline.
yes, how?
Thank you very much.

Julio Torres

[Akuna]

Sorry, I'm not sure your question is clear enough, could you try to reformulate it?

[zerdna]

Sorry, I'm not sure your question is clear enough, could you try to reformulate it?

Yes I have PC no internet connection, I want do update system or package.
But can I update my PC offline from other PC with conection internet.

Thank you for advice.

Julio Torres.

[Kerd]

You can download the packages on the PC with internet, put them on a pendrive or cd and update them on the pc that are not connecting to internet.

[zerdna]

You can download the packages on the PC with internet, put them on a pendrive or cd and update them on the pc that are not connecting to internet.

Ok.

I understand, but to upgrade system is the same procedure. I understand the advice is for package.

For example where packets are stored discharge slapt-get.

Again thank you.

Julio Torres

[Akuna]

Supposing your 2 computers features the exact same version of Salix & that you never cleaned slapt-get cache on the 'online' computer.
First upgrade your 'online' computer, then copy /var/slapt-get directory to the 'offline' computer before upgrading it too

[JRD]

Use these steps:
On the non-connected computer:

1. copy the content of /var/log/packages to an USB key or CD or hard drive, whatever. Use tar to get a file, easier to transport:

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   $ tar cf mypackages.tar /var/log/packages/*

On the connected computer:

1. Get the content of the tar, and unpack it to /tmp/2upgrade dir:

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   $ mkdir -p /tmp/2upgrade/var/log/packages /tmp/2upgrade/var/slapt-get && (cd /tmp/2upgrade/var/log/packages && tar xf path_to_your/mypackages.tar)

2. create the file slapt-getrc:

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   $ cat > slapt-getrc
   WORKINGDIR=/tmp/2upgrade/var/slapt-get
   EXCLUDE=^aaa_elflibs,^aaa_base,^devs,.*-[0-9]+dl$,-x86_64-
   SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/i486/slackware-13.1/:OFFICIAL
   SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/i486/slackware-13.1/extra/:OFFICIAL
   SOURCE=http://salix.enialis.net/i486/13.1/:PREFERRED
   ^D

   Of course you must adapt it to match the one you've got on the non-connected machine, just change the WORKINGDIR variable.
3. execute the update on the connected computer (assuming slapt-get is available on this computer):

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   $ export ROOT=/tmp/2upgrade; /usr/sbin/slapt-get -c slapt-getrc -d --upgrade; unset ROOT

4. copy the content of /tmp/2upgrade/var/slapt-get to a tar file
5. copy this tar file to the non-connected computer, extracting in to /var/slapt-get and then do the upgrade on this computer:

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   # slapt-get --upgrade

I didn't test this, but I'm pretty sure it will work.

[FormatC]

I, too, would like to be able to manually update and install programs offline. For me, this would be only temporary, though. Right now, I don't have an internet connection at my house since I just moved in. As such, in order to install packages/updates on my computer, I have to do it manually. This method, though, is hit or miss.

I download the packages/updates via an internet connection (not at my house) using a Microsoft computer. As such, sometimes I happen to have all the dependencies in place, but most of the time I don't. Is there a way to get things and install them without manually looking through all the dependencies. In my experience, I get what I would like to install from a repository, and on that page there is a list of dependencies. So I click on those and get those as well. But as I click on more pages, dependencies also have other dependencies, and I don't know how far it will end up going. Is there an easier way to go about doing this?

[JRD]

No easy way to do this for now on a Windows system. sorry.

[gapan]

You can always rsync the entire slackware+salix repositories to an external hard drive and then use that hard drive as local repositories with slapt-get.