On Friday 25 April 2025 13:25:58 Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
On 4/25/25 9:59 AM, Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
There might be a better way to do it, but if I wanted to download every Trinity package, I'd do 'apt-get install -d -trinity'. The -d switch means download only, don't install.
Probably best to just ignore what I've said about this. I woke up very groggy today, and stayed that way long enough to type the above. Of course it won't work because apt-get needs a complete package name. Something along the same idea would work with synaptic, but would be rather cumbersome.
Here's the post from Slavek that Bill mentioned, responding to his request for the same info last year:
https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt op.org/message/NQDNOVE23RGEC4X6CN4ZYKURVHV4EJGW/
Thanks much! I don't know how you found it, but that will come in handy soon enough. I have been reorganizing my files, removing duplicates, and am about to get another external hard drive ... so I hope to be able to create that local repository for myself in the near future.
It used to be, aptoncd would do something like that; but for the past few releases (maybe after Jessie, I think?) it has been removed from the Debian/Devuan repositories.
It would be nice if developers got together somewhere and brought back aptoncd, a fork of it, or another tool that does more or less the same thing.
Bill