How To Install Software On Ubuntu Offline

 

Suppose I need to install a number of packages on a (Linux) machine that does not have an internet connection. Let's say that I downloaded a copy of cran and burned it on a DVD that I bring to the offline location: wget ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/src/contrib/.tar.gz I can even add a PACKAGES file that contains an overview of all the source packages and their dependencies: library(tools) writePACKAGES How could I use this offline to install a source package in such a way that dependencies are resolved and installed from the local files as well? For example, someone wants to install package ggplot2, which has a fairly deep dependency structure. Assume the source package of ggplot2 and all of its dependencies are available as source packages in the current working directory. If I do: install.packages('ggplot20.9.1.tar.gz', repos=NULL) This results in an error, because the dependencies are not resolved at all. Alternatively: install.packages(list.files(pattern='.tar.gz'), repos=NULL) However this also ignores the dependency structure, and tries to install packages in alphabetical order, which will also fail. I looked into available.packages and contrib.url but I just can't find an example of installing a source package from a local file including it's dependencies.

  1. How To Install Software In Ubuntu 14.04 Offline
  2. How To Install Software On Ubuntu Offline
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How To Install Software In Ubuntu 14.04 Offline

The correct answer was given by Joshua Ulrich in the comment on the question: The key is prefixing the argument to either repos or contriburl with file://. So in Unixy systems one could do: install.packages('ggplot2', contriburl='file:///path/to/packages/') This assumes that all required source packages, as well as a PACKAGES index file is available in /path/to/packages.

How To Install Software On Ubuntu Offline

How To Install Software On Ubuntu Offline

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If no PACKAGES file is present, this should be generated first using: library(tools) writePACKAGES('/path/to/packages/') which will generate an index of all source packages found in this directory. Note that in the example, there are 3 slashes behind the file: prefix. The third slash indicates a path relative to the root of the file system. The difference between the repos and contriburl argument is that repos will append another /src/contrib to the path specified, as this is usually where source packages are located on an official CRAN repository mirror.

All contents of the zip file will extracted to a folder named “cube”. Go to the cube folder. You will see the following inside this folder. Cube-system – where Cube’s system files are stored. Projects – where your project files will be stored. Cube – Cube’s application executable. We have talked about installing applications offline in Ubuntu before. And we are going to talk about it once again. Orbital Apps has brought us a new type of application package, ORB, with portable applications, interactive installer support and offline usage ability. Portable applications are.