Hi Robert,
I cannot install apt-offline package into BeagleBone Black running Debian 10 (buster):
I run the command : sudo apt-get update before the above installation.
Thank You,
David
HI @dzhou, apt-offline missed the buster release cycle:
There is a backport version:
give me a little bit of time…
Edit: okay try now:
debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian buster InRelease [3,063 B]
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Get:5 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian buster/main armhf Packages [1,635 kB]
Fetched 1,638 kB in 13s (131 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
3 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$ sudo apt install apt-offline
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
python3-debianbts python3-httplib2 python3-magic python3-pycurl python3-pysimplesoap
Suggested packages:
libcurl4-gnutls-dev python-pycurl-doc python3-pycurl-dbg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-offline python3-debianbts python3-httplib2 python3-magic python3-pycurl python3-pysimplesoap
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 211 kB of archives.
After this operation, 813 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Regards,
Hi Robert,
It is working. Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
David
Hi Robert,
I am trying to install/update BBBw without internet for the first time setup. For example, to install minicom package by offline: (as the first step on a new board )
sudo apt-offline set --install-packages minicom --update apt-offline.sig
or
sudo apt-offline set vim-offline.sig --install-packages vim
I got the following errors: ( the msg of the second command for vim is pasted below)
debian@beaglebone:~/usb/pkg_install$ sudo apt-offline set vim-offline.sig --install-packages vim
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/apt-offline”, line 25, in
from apt_offline_core.AptOfflineCoreLib import main
File “/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_offline_core/AptOfflineCoreLib.py”, line 45, in
import apt
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘apt’
Did I miss anything? What are the commands to setup for an offline installation?
Thank you,
David
Hi @dzhou, sorry i’ve never used apt-offline:
Take a look at the man pages:
try the examples at the bottom.
Regards,
Hi Robert,
I tried the commands in the Sequence 1. It fails with with same error msg as I posted previously. I am wondering why it fails.
I had packages downloaded for offline installation, but for the default-jre it seems not easy thing to do. Even I did the same way to install using deb files ( keeping the the sequence of installation for dependent files) as installed through on-line commands, it still fails, and many certificates are not installed as on-line commands. Any suggestions?
Best Regards,
David
Yeah…
debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$ sudo apt-offline set update.sig --update
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/apt-offline", line 25, in <module>
from apt_offline_core.AptOfflineCoreLib import main
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/apt_offline_core/AptOfflineCoreLib.py", line 45, in <module>
import apt
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'apt'
So it’s broken… now we know why it wasn’t included in buster…
sudo apt install python3-apt
debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$ sudo apt-offline set update.sig --update
Gathering details needed for 'update' operation
debian@bbb-pwr01-ser09:~$
Regards,
Hi Robert,
It seems to be related to a bug in the apt-offline version 1.8.2 and fixed at version 1.8.2.2:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=959085
I am going download 1.8.2.2, and try again.
Thank You,
David
sure, building… Just install python3-apt that’s part of the fix.
Regards,
Works on version 1.8.2.2.
Best Regards,
David
Hi Robert,
I am still having the issues with apt-offline installation. The problem is mainly with update. I got the errors:
ERROR: Failed to unlink temproary file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/deb.debian.org_debian-security_dists_buster_updates_contrib_binary-all_Packages.xzapt-offline. Check respective decompressor library support
deb.debian.org_debian-security_dists_buster_updates_contrib_binary-all_Packages.xz synced
And sometimes I had to manually to twice for installing a package. I have tried many different ways. Here is my steps for offline installation:
-
On a machine with new installation (Debian 10, buster)
installed apt-offline.deb with dependent files -
sudo apt-offline set update.sig --update
I got error:
-
Then I gets update first for the machine:
sudo apt-get update -
After update, I did the second step, again
sudo apt-offline set update.sig --update
it has no errors. -
sudo apt-offline get update.sig --bundle update.zip
It has errors:
-
If I ignore these errors, I got installation errors:
If I installed twice with zip files, at end, all updates I needed are installed successfully. But I cannot automate this without errors.
I am not sure, I did right.
Thank you,
David
All pre-built images ship with apt’s cache blank… This saves 2~300Mb’s in space…
The generation of “Packages.lzma” hasn’t been required for years, besides it “already” got “Package.xz” right above it… The Server side files are listed in this file:
http://repos.rcn-ee.net/debian/dists/buster/Release
So that’s an apt-offline bug…
That’s not my server.
The correct place to report/fix these issues is: Issues · rickysarraf/apt-offline · GitHub
Regards,
Hi Robert,
Thank you very much.
David
Hi Robert,
I am still having issues with offline installation of default-jre on debian buster. Offline tool has bug, I believe. I downloaded all the deb files and couldn’t make it work. I recorded installation messages using apt-get on-line installation, which works. But when I manually install with the same dependent sequence, I still cannot install it. It seems getting into dependent loop: A needs B, B needs C, but C needs A, again.
Here is my screen dump:
Installing ca-certificate needs default-jre-headless;
installing default-jre-head-less needs open-jdk-jre-headless;
And open-jdk-jre-headless needs ca-certificate-java;
Don’t know how on-line installation is done.
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Best Regards,
David
HI @dzhou, apt handles this natively, but while using dpkg you need to pass other options to “force” the install:
–force-things, --no-force-things, --refuse-things
Force or refuse (no-force and refuse mean the same thing) to do some things. things is a comma separated list of things specified below. --force-help displays a message describing them. Things marked with (*) are forced by default.
Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used by experts only. Using them without fully understanding their effects may break your whole system.
Regards,
Hi Robert,
Finally, I got default-jre installed without network.
Thank you for your support.
David