How to install package offline?

Question

On my Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS network-manager isn't installed yet. Without this program I can't connect to WiFi network. But I can't install this package from Ubuntu without network connection. Here is my question. How to install this offline? or How to install from another computer?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 12 '16 at 20:26

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You can connect to WiFi without network-manager (even though it should have been installed by default). Open a terminal and run:

sudo iwconfig

There will be some output like lo, eth0, wlan0. The one we want is wlan. Take note of its name (probably wlan0).

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

Go to the end of the file and create a new line. Write the following:

auto wlan0

Replacing wlan0 with what you found back there. In new lines:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid SSID

Replacing SSID with the name of your WiFi connection.

wpa-psk password

Replacing password with your WiFi network's password.

Hit Ctrl+O then Enter to save and Ctrl+X to exit. In the terminal, run:

sudo ifup wlan0

And you should be connected. You can now install network-manager and anything you want. Remember to remove everything you wrote from /etc/network/interfaces before using network-manager otherwise it won't work.

answered Jan 12 '16 at 20:26

Eduardo Cola

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A sudo iwconfig command doesn't works. Command not found. – R.D.O Jan 22 '16 at 14:22
You did something wrong. Try sudo ifconfig instead. – Eduardo Cola Jan 22 '16 at 14:51
Command workd, but not internet. My /etc/network/interface/ looks like this (without #): auto lo (new line) iface lo inet loopback (3 lines down) allow-hotplug eth0 (new line) iface eth0 inet dhcp (new line) auto wlan0 (new line) iface wlan0 inet dhcp (new line) wpa-ssid (ssid) (new line) wpa-psk (password). And information for sudo ifconfig is: eth0, lo. I don't know what I have to do. – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 18:14
If ifconfig shows only lo and eth0, your Wireless driver is not working/doesn't exist. Could you run dmesg | grep Network and give me the output? – Eduardo Cola Jan 24 '16 at 18:31
Also try dmesg | grep Wireless. – Eduardo Cola Jan 24 '16 at 18:32
My ifconfig show wlan0. – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 18:43
But.. You just said it doesn't! OK, could you remove everything you added to /etc/network/interfaces and reinstall network-manager? You know, that should work out of the box. – Eduardo Cola Jan 24 '16 at 18:47
My ifconfig show wlan0. dmesg command show a lot of text. – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 18:47
I don't have network-manager (ubuntu said that). – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 18:49
How to shutdown system with command? – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 18:51
I can't do some actions, beacuse it's only Raspberry Pi. – R.D.O Jan 24 '16 at 19:05
You definitely should have said that in your question. Shutdown=sudo shutdown -h now – Eduardo Cola Jan 24 '16 at 20:57

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