How to install VLC with no internet connection

Question

I need to install VNC in one Ubuntu machine. The problem is that machine is in a remote site with no internet access whatsoever.

I could download a VLC installer for Ubuntu and take it to the machine I want to install in, but...

The VLC site offers a "download" button but that button only calls the apt protocol. The site doesn't have a way to download a deb package or installer that I could take with me in a flash drive to install VLC in the isolated machine.

What alternatives do I have?
Can I somehow take the deb packages of a machine in which VLC is already installed? If so, how?

user2667549 · Answer 1 · 2015-07-21T15:04:14.453

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You can change your apt-cache-path temporarily to a specific folder and download your package:

sudo apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/new/cache/is/here" --download-only install vlc

If vlc is already installed:

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/new/cache/is/here" --download-only --reinstall install vlc

or you can use apt-offline :)

repo management

change apt-cache folder

apt download-only / apt-offline

edited Jul 21 '15 at 15:04

answered Jul 21 '15 at 14:35

user2667549

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Doesn't work because VLC is already installed. – Tulains Córdova Jul 21 '15 at 14:40
do you tried `apt-get clean` and then the command with `reinstall` instead of `install`? – user2667549 Jul 21 '15 at 14:44
Wouldn't that mess up my system? What are the side-effects of doing the clean thing? – Tulains Córdova Jul 21 '15 at 14:45
apt-get clean --> empties your apt-cache . If you remove packages and want to install them again, they will be downloaded because they aren't in the cache anymore – user2667549 Jul 21 '15 at 14:46
E: invalid operation: reinstall – Tulains Córdova Jul 21 '15 at 14:48
my fault .... --> `--reinstall install` https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/apt/apt-get – user2667549 Jul 21 '15 at 14:50
Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/26078/discussion-between-user2667549-and-user1598390). – user2667549 Jul 21 '15 at 14:52

Francisco V. · Answer 2 · 2015-11-20T12:41:30.060

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You can find the debian package on a machine where it is already installed under /var/cache/apt/archives

As an alternative you can also download the binary packages from here, depending on your Ubuntu version: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/+source/vlc

edited Nov 20 '15 at 12:41

answered Jul 21 '15 at 14:53

Francisco V.

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