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I have Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS installed on my computer and a friend of mine has Kubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr installed on his machine, which has no connection to the internet.

I want to share with him some packages I've installed on my Ubuntu (such as texlive-full, for example), basically I'll copy and paste /var/cache/apt/packages to his machine (I have a really slow connection to the internet).

It that possible ?
Could anything go wrong ?

Alvar
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Rhonda
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Test this:

In synaptic you can select the packages you want to install and under the first menu there is an option to generate a script which you can take to another machine and run there.

This script will download with wget all the packages you specified that you wanted and their dependencies.

Once run you'll have all the package files needed.

Carry them on a CD/USB stick and install them by:

sudo su
dpkg -i *.deb
kyodake
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The only difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is the desktop interface you're using. The underlying system is still the same.

So, as long as the computers are running the same version, it will work. (The third number on LTS releases just indicates an update milestone -- not an entirely different version)

I should warn you, though, that installing packages this way does not guarantee that all of the dependencies of your packages will be installed. Be careful if you do it this way.

hal7df
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