Ubuntu Lucid Post-Install Updates - without Internet Access
 

On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:22:56 +0200
Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I need to Install Ubuntu Lucid on a computer without Internet access.
> I have the ISO on a DoK, and had successfully used it as a Live
> system on that machine.
>
> How do I perform the post-install updates / upgrades (nVidia Driver,
> for instance) without Internet access?
>
> Is there a way to download an ISO image that contains
> up-to-the-minute, sort of speak, updates that I can direct the newly
> installed Ubuntu to?
>
> I have never used a Linux box without an Internet connection before...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amichai.

From the description in Synaptic:

apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager

apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution
without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to apt

apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no
network). This signature contains all download information required for
the apt database system. This signature file can be used on another
machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and
can even be running windows) to download the updates.
The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by
apt and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the
non-networked machine.

apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline


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Ubuntu Lucid Post-Install Updates - without Internet Access
 

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cyber_wizard@mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:22:56 +0200
> Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
:
>> How do I perform the post-install updates / upgrades (nVidia Driver,
>> for instance) without Internet access?
>>
:
> From the description in Synaptic:
>
> apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager
>
:

If you are referring to the proprietary nVidia driver, you have to get
that from nVidia directly and then put it on your net-free machine to
install it. If you mean the one in the Ubuntu repository, the above
will probably work for you (but in my experience, the driver does not
- I had to use the one from nVidia on both my machines).

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Ubuntu Lucid Post-Install Updates - without Internet Access
 

On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 15:52 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
> <cyber_wizard@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:22:56 +0200
> > Amichai Rotman <amichai@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> >
> :
> >> How do I perform the post-install updates / upgrades (nVidia Driver,
> >> for instance) without Internet access?
> >>
> :
> > From the description in Synaptic:
> >
> > apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager
> >
> :
>
> If you are referring to the proprietary nVidia driver, you have to get
> that from nVidia directly and then put it on your net-free machine to
> install it. If you mean the one in the Ubuntu repository, the above
> will probably work for you (but in my experience, the driver does not
> - I had to use the one from nVidia on both my machines).

I've had good success just using the hardware drivers app. Ric


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