On 4/25/25 2:38 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
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.
Thanks.
As I moments ago replied to Dan, probably is a moot point now because pretty or not, I now have what I need.
I did notice in my online search for an answer that the Debian tools apt, apt-get, apt-src, apt-cache, aptitude, etc. all differ sufficiently to be confusing to somebody not keeping pace with the so-called "Debian way."
I don't plan to use Debian/Devuan as my daily system. I only wanted a way to study all of the packages because that never has been done before with Slackware. Now that (I think) I have everything downloaded, including source packages, I can study and hopefully remedy the Slackware situation.
If only I had a 21st century internet connection. I think altogether all of the downloads took three or more hours....