New Xubuntu User - general package management query
Morning all. I'm a longtime Slackware user looking at a possible switch to Xubuntu. Basically, I like Slack a lot, but I'm looking at setting up an audio workstation and have neither the knowledge nor the patience required to compile all the various components from scratch, so I'd prefer something with a solid package management system to do the donkey work for me.
However...
I'm stuck with dialup at home for now, so downloading tons of packages to customise a basic Xubuntu installation will take forever. I have access to broadband at work, but only from Windows machines. Finally, I have several PCs at home which i'd like to install Xubuntu on if all goes well.
Ideally, I'd like to download the packages I need at work using the broadband and burn them to a CD, so I don't have to download the entire package set individually on each machine. Is there a simple way to do this and resolve all dependencies, or is it just a case of browsing the repositories and manually following the dependency trail for each package?
I understand that the finer granularity of packages used by Debian-based distributions compared to Slackware helps resolve dependencies, but when even relatively simple programs seem to need dozens of supporting packages, it don't half make manual downloads laborious...
Thanks for listening...
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