installed Ubuntu server from USB, now need to add package

StevePleasants · 09-02-2009, 09:36 PM

Hello,

Welcome to my first post on this forum. Thank you for reading it.

I have a machine with no CD drive, so I made a USB install disk from the ISO of Ubuntu server 9.x. During install I declined to install any additional packages.

I need to install wvdial to get my network going. I need to either use the USB drive as the source for apt-get, or be able to navigate to the wvdial installer on the usb drive and install it.

I am on a server install with only command prompt.

Advice?

Thanks,

-Steve

linuxlover.chaitanya · 09-03-2009, 12:50 AM

You have a package manager for Ubuntu. You can use it to install the packages you want.

Just fire

sudo apt-get install <package-name>

sudo apt-get install wvdial

If you are logging in as normal user it will ask for your password.
If you are already root then you can omit sudo.

StevePleasants · 09-05-2009, 06:58 PM

Hello,

Thank you for responding.

Unfortunately, when I try to apt-get anything, the server tries to connect to the Internet and download packages. I am trying to install wvdial in order to get Internet access, so I am sort of stuck.

I need to be able to either point apt to the USB stick as a source, or manually navigate to the package on the USB stick and run the installer.

-Steve

linus72 · 09-05-2009, 07:09 PM

well, you could either reinstall
OR
maybe you could boot up the usb again, apt-get the pkgs without installing them...

OR
go here
get the pkgs while running liveusb and transfer to your hd setup and install from there
http://packages.ubuntu.com/

repo · 09-06-2009, 12:13 AM

Copy the iso to your HD
Then

Code:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop ubuntu_install.iso /cdrom
sudo apt-cdrom -m -d /cdrom add

Then

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wvdial

j_jerry · 09-06-2009, 12:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StevePleasants

Hello,

Thank you for responding.

Unfortunately, when I try to apt-get anything, the server tries to connect to the Internet and download packages. I am trying to install wvdial in order to get Internet access, so I am sort of stuck.

I need to be able to either point apt to the USB stick as a source, or manually navigate to the package on the USB stick and run the installer.

-Steve

So your machine currently have no active internet connection.right?

Then either you need to connect through a LAN gateway or go to another system with an internet connection and browse http://packages.ubuntu.com and download the packages you need. Then copy it to a USB drive and install onto your machine