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update offline.

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

Julio Torres

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

Akuna wrote: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.

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.

Kerd wrote: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

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

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.

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?

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

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.