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how can we install the packages from the CD of the Ubuntu if net is not available?
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how can we install the packages from the CD of the Ubuntu if net is not available?
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The CD is specifically designed to permit installation without the Internet. You boot from it, it asks a bunch of questions, then it installs itself to your machine.
You may be missing the latest updates, but you will have a good complete working system by the time it's through.
If you don't already have such a CD, you can have one shipped to you by mail from this order page: https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ . The Ubuntu folks are so nice they'll do that, for free!
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You have to make sure the CD is:
If it's checked in sources and present in the drive, you should be able to install (using synaptic or whatever) packages from it.
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The install CD can be added as repository. See RepositoriesUbuntu for more details.
Another option is to use apt-cdrom
. See AptCdrom for more details.
At the end, you'll just end up with another entry in /etc/apt/sources.list
looking like this:
deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic_Koala - Release i386 (20081029.1)]/ karmic main restricted
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Have the .deb
packages on a CD and go from there?
You don't need a network connection (certainly not to the Internet) to install packages stored on a CD.
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You can have used saved downloads done earlier on your system or on others system. Ubuntu downloads all packages and stores at a place in your system before installing them.
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1It's an operating system installation/administration question, not a programming question; and the experts for that are next door, at Superuser.com. – Carl Smotricz – 2009-12-09T19:05:33.237
3lol, I'm going to call it UBANTU from now on – Rob – 2009-12-09T19:09:07.207