On Friday 25 April 2025 09:23:27 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
A few days ago I installed Devuan Daedalus in a VM and downloaded the TDE 14.1.3 mega package 'tde-trinity'.
I presumed that "mega" package downloaded everything TDE, but seems to be only individual packages split from the core package group. Missing from my effort are packages such as amarok, koffice, themes, etc.
I tried 'apt search trinity' but that is a messy output.
Next I tried 'apt-cache search trinity | grep -v 18n'. That produced a list of 786 packages. Clipping the output produces provided me only package names.
I shrugged, inhaled, and launched 'for pkg in $(apt-cache search trinity
| grep -v i18n | sed 's| - .*||'); do apt install -y $pkg; done'.
Seemed to succeed but raised a simple question. Is there a short-hand method to download everything TDE?
I asked a similar question a long while back; I wanted to download all the TDE packages (for Devuan, specific to my system) in the repositories, so that I could save them for myself, for those times when I find myself stranded without internet, yet need to reinstall and perhaps rebuild my system.
Slavek kindly responded with a command for aptitude that would do the trick. I have tried to adapt this to apt-get, but haven't had much time or resources to finish the job; that is, to create my own local repositories on an external hard drive. Then I use dpkg to install.
Just now I tried searching Kmail for the thread, but can't find it. My next thought would be to search for all of Slavek's posts, but that would be searching for the needle in the hay.
Perhaps we can beg Slavek to provide us with that command once more? both aptitude and apt-get commands would be much appreciated.
Bill