Hi,
I would like to know if it would be possible to have a fully air-gapped/offline setup where it would be possible to download specific softwares packages and then be able to install/unninstall them without the need of internet access.
Thanks
We dont have such a feature built in.
Theoretically you could download thinks manually beforehand and install them on your own. But this would mean, you need to know each package required upfront.
You could always look for an .appimage of the program/software you want to run…this is a “package” that has all the dependencies built in…but usually the program is MUCH larger than it’s statically installed dependency program counterparts…
What is an AppImage?
AppImage is a format to distribute an entire application as a single executable file. To run the app, an user simply needs to run this file — there’s no intermediate installation step. The application runs off this package, and it doesn’t place files on the base system. In addition, the AppImage file contains all libraries and files it needs to run, and this allows them to work on a large number of distributions.
https://appimage-builder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Of course…there is a repository for those