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!

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that’s for sure, it’s pretty user hostile.

    It’s not open source but I absolutely love Veeam Agent, it will backup an online system with encryption, very easy to use, and they provide a bootable recovery image to restore from.