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One computer dies (Computer-A), so I order another (Computer-B) and decide to start Ubuntu anew. I have the HDD of the first computer in an external enclosure—and, for the next week, my internet sucks (and is restricted to about 1 Gb per day).

There's some software I'd like to install that's pretty heavy on the dependencies, all of which are installed via apt-get on Computer-A.

I'd like to be able to say something like: 

sudo add-apt-repository Computer-A
sudo apt-get install [program]

I know that the .deb files are in /var/cache/apt/archives, but I'd like to install them with the package manager, allowing for removal (and other things) as if I had downloaded and installed these packages from the Internet.

Is this possible?

Ravan
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AmagicalFishy
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  • I have not tested this, but take a look at this question and in particular at the answer by BigSack. He/she talks about using dpkg-dev to create package lists for a bunch of .debfiles. – Nephente Sep 28 '15 at 05:28

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/var/cache/apt/archives is just a cache. You can safely copy all your old cache to the new one. While installing, if a package is there, it should be picked from there instead of downloading it.

emiliollbb
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