On Sunday 19 February 2012 12:34:04 Werner Joss wrote:
> On Sunday 19 February 2012 13:16:33 jc wrote:
> > Have to load Trinity on a new machine with Debian 6, with internet - no
> > problems. Also have to update some machines running deb 5 KDE where there
> > is no internet and have a identical machine with internet access. Update
> > no problems (reload with wad of DVD's), not sure how to load Trinity
>
> IMHO, it should be sufficient to just copy the whole /var/cache/apt
> directory from an up-to-date machine with trinity installed to one without
> internet connection.
> then just do
> apt-get install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity
> there.
> will of course only work with same debian version on target machine (same
> sources.list configuration also recommended) and
> complete /var/cache/apt/archives directory (including .deb packages for
> dependencies).
>
> werner
>

I think you'll find that apt-get will need some controlling package list files 
to identify the TDE packages to work.

However, once you've upgraded the base Debian installation I think you should 
be able to just install all of the TDE packages using dpkg.

Try copying all of the TDE .deb packages into an empty/new temporary folder 
somewhere, cd into that folder and then do: dpkg -i *.deb

This _should_ work but I make no promises.  However, this is what I had to do 
this when I upgraded to TDE 3.5.13 and then needed to downgrade back to 
3.5.12 after finding a few important problems.

I though I'd try the easiest option first, so I located all of the TDE 
3.5.12 .deb package files, copied them into a folder on their own (so I 
wasn't installing anything else) and then used dpkg -i *.deb to install all 
of the (3.5.12) .deb packages in that folder (if you have any other 
non-tde .deb packages in that folder then dpkg -i *.deb will try to install 
those as well, which may not be a good idea.

Note that I was doing a downgrade, which meant that any dependencies for 
3.5.12 might have been met by the existing 3.5.13 versions, whereas if you're 
upgrading you might hit some dependency issues.  If this happens then 
rerunning the dpkg -i command should eventually get them all sorted out; 
although some packages may not be installed due to dependency issues during a 
run of dpkg -i the packages that they are dependent upon should install ok.  
Depending upon how many levels of dependency there are you may need to run 
the dpkg -i command several times.

Like I said though - no promises - and try it on a non-critical system 
first!!!

LeeE