Offline package installation for the bone

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Hi,

My only Internet connection at home is through a 3G dongle. This means
that installing new packages poses some challenges.
I would like to use my dongle on the bone running Ubuntu since Ubuntu
seems to recognize the dongle. Now I just needs ppp, make and other
packages but without access to a dhcp server all previous attempts
stops at "just apt-get install".
I guess I'm asking where to download the packages manually on a host
pc so that I can them transfer them to the bone and install them
offline?

Regards,

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http://us.feeds.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/unstable/ipk/glibc/armv7a/base/

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Tanks a lot.
I was actually asking about packages for ubuntu but perhaps going for
angstrom and building the driver for the dongle would be possible
although I doubt it will be easier.

Regards

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I've added 'ppp' to the default install, so next week when new images
are generated this won't be a problem going forward..

On another pc, download this file and copy it to the beagle's sd card
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-5ubuntu1_armel.deb

then just "sudo dpkg -i ppp_2.4.5-5ubuntu1_armel.deb" to install it..

Regards,

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Tanks a lot.
I was actually asking about packages for ubuntu but perhaps going for
angstrom and building the driver for the dongle would be possible
although I doubt it will be easier.

I've added 'ppp' to the default install, so next week when new images
are generated this won't be a problem going forward..

On another pc, download this file and copy it to the beagle's sd card
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.5-5ubuntu1_armel.deb

then just "sudo dpkg -i ppp_2.4.5-5ubuntu1_armel.deb" to install it..

That is just great thanks a lot.
I look forward to try this

Regards,