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I am setting up debian on another machine. The current arch machine I am on has internet but the new one won't and I am trying to do a minimal net install on that one. So I just want the packages that will get internet going on it so I could continue with the install process.
The debian installer for setting up internet is no help here as I am using 4g mobile with ModemManager and NetworkManager.
I set the connection up on arch as per the wiki article here.
I would like to repeat the process on the debian system invoking the terminal during the install process and then I am guessing using dpkg.
Will it just be ModemManager and NetworkManager, and perhaps ppp packages, along with all their recursive dependencies?
I know the packages can be downloaded manually from the package database for debian but with the dependencies that will be hundreds of clicks if doing manually.
I know that arch can use apt, but does that help in this case? I don't want to install, only download to a usb stick so I can then sneaker-net them to the other machine.
Maybe better to use a system agnostic download process like wget, but I am not really very good with that or bash scripting to know how to do it.
Any ideas of the best route to take?
EDIT: Solved by just running a debian based vm and sharing the usb stick.
Last edited by archuser38013 (2025-06-01 05:56:10)
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