How to download ALL dependencies for an external .deb package (rescuezilla)? - eviltoast

Hi everyone! I’m trying to prepare a live iso with a USB stick including the additional rescuezilla package (or, alternatively, additional packages for a live rescuezilla .iso). Sadly rescuezilla does not support encryption, and so I’d like to be able to create/encrypt an image on one single live iso, not having to do a double iso boot just for this. I’m trying to do this in a manner that I won’t need internet once I need to use this USB stick. And hence…I found the most quoted command as:

apt-get download $(apt-rdepends |grep -v "^ ")

But this seems to work ONLY if your package is also part of the repo. If it’s an external .deb such as rescuezilla_2.4.2-1_all.deb is, then the command just fails with:

Reading state information... Done
W: Unable to locate package ./rescuezilla_2.4.2-1_all.deb
E: Handler silently failed

So…what can I do to download the many dependencies of rescuezilla onto a USB stick? Thanks!

  • ipsirc@lemmy.mlEnglish
    24·
    1 year ago

    You missed the correct path.

    W: Unable to locate package ./rescuezilla_2.4.2-1_all.deb

    Use the correct path to your deb file.

    • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Still not correct. The path is perfectly correct. Even using full path. This method EXPECTS a repo package, not a file. I already figured the answer, it’s in this thread.

      • ipsirc@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I think you have confused the apt command with the apt-get command. apt-get doesn’t handle files, while apt has it since the very first version. This is one of the important differences between the two commands. This was one of the main reasons why I have been using only apt for years.

        • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.eeOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          Again, incorrect. The answer is above. And still, you haven’t read the thread. This is NOT about getting rescuezilla to install in the current PC. This is to get it to install in a DIFFERENT PC, which happens to be OFFLINE. So apt by itself will FAIL when it tries to resolve dependencies.