[ale] Getting additional programs on Ubuntu PCs w/o Internet connection

[Stephen Benjamin]

You'll have to burn all the .deb's for each package and the dependencies to
a CD-ROM and then there's instructions for having Synaptic use a CD as a
storage source:

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.10/add-applications/C/offline.html



On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Daniel Howard <dhhoward at comcast.net>wrote:

> Folks, I just did an Ubuntu installfest for a bunch of families at a
> local elementary school, and we ran out of time when it came to
> installing additional programs on Ubuntu using the school's Internet
> feed, so the families took the PCs home and none of them have Internet
> at home.  How can I make up some CDs with the additional programs I
> wanted to put on them (like Childsplay, GCompris, Abiword, GNumeric,
> etc.) that they can install from CD?  Again, these PCs will not have
> Internet access, so the CDs would have to have all elements of the
> programs on them.
>
> Thanks, Daniel
>
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> President and CEO
> Georgia Open Source Education Foundation
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