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apt-get does not work without an internet connection. How can work around this?

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I have a host which is firewalled to the point where apt-get is unable to download packages. That host does not have access to a proxy.

I know in gentoo I could work around the problem by fetching the necessary files using a second host and placing the files in /usr/portage/distfiles .

Does Ubuntu have a similar place I can stash the files to work around the lack of internet access?

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answered 2 Years ago heaco · Accepted Answer

Based on the answer linked by terdon I was able to derive the following procedure.

Use the second host to fetch the .deb files that the first host was unable to download.

Copy those .deb files to the firewalled host. Then

dpkg -i *whatever*.deb

Boom, I now have the software I need.

I'm not sure what I'm missing out on by skipping all the apt-offline gymnastics.