I am trying to download some debian packages and their dependencies in a directory.
I tried using the command aptitude download <package_name> it downloaded the package without its dependencies.
How do I tell it to download the dependencies too?
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This seems to be a duplicate of this. Will the accepted answer work in your case?– maulinglawnsSep 29, 2016 at 6:35
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You can use apt-rdepends to build the complete set of dependencies (recursively), including the main package, then download that:
apt-get download $(apt-rdepends "${package}" | grep -v ^\ )
(replacing "${package}" of course).
answered Sep 29, 2016 at 7:12
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that's great, and it places a bunch of .debs into the current directory. But it can give errors like
E: Can't select candidate version from package c-compiler as it has no candidatewhen there are virtual packages in the list. Jul 5, 2020 at 15:57 -
That’s a good point, thanks for raising it;
apt-rependsalso suffers from listing alternatives equally (for example,cargois listed as depending ongcc,clangandc-compiler). Jul 5, 2020 at 16:57
A rather hackish way to do that is to have another utility (apt-cache in this example) list the package's dependencies:
# PACKAGE=nautilus; aptitude download $PACKAGE $(apt-cache depends "$PACKAGE" | grep Depends | awk -F ': ' '{print $NF}' | xargs)
answered Sep 29, 2016 at 6:32
Easier Way
aptitude -d -o Dir::Cache:archives=/home/alex/aptitude-test/ install alsaplayer for exampel.