Is there a way to download a package and all related dependencies without...

[magomago]

getting one by one? I want to let my little brother use Ubuntu back at home[I've had him on Gentoo +Fluxbox and he is getting the hang of it, but I wanna ease his load on him for now and give him something easier to work with so he doesn't have to mount /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom everytime ;)], but over ther we only have a 56k modem. So I figured I will send home 5.10 and then a disc full of alll the relevant software he needs.

But going through the list I noticed I have to download things one by one, which is a huggge hassle. Package A will list B C D E as dependencies. Is there a way to get B C D E at the same time? I ask this because I need to get audio codecs, and some other programs (such as gcc 3.4 for compiling his modem drivers) onto a Disc and each lists quite a bit when it comes to dependencies

Thanks!

[invalid]

apt-get / synaptic will automatically download and install required dependencies.

If you are trying to get a slew of unrelated packages, you can:
sudo apt-get install package1 package2 package3 etc...
or select multiple packages with synaptic

I hope this is what you were looking for, if not someone else may be able to answer better.

Cheers,
Cb

[magomago]

What I mean speciically is

PC A has broadband connection

PC B over 60 miles away doesn't

I plan to put Ubuntu on PC B

Howvever, PC B will require several things from apt-get. However, it will take too long

With PC A I can search the respositories and get what is needed. However, due to dependencies this takes too long. IE: Program 1 required c d e f as dependencies

Is there a way for PC A to get the packages i need for PC B faster, without having to go through the mundane tastk of getting all of program 1s dependencies?

[doclivingston]

1) run apt-get --print-uris install packagea package b on computer B to get a list of the files you need (including dependencies). You can do this on computer A if it has the same things installed.
2) go to computer A and download everything from step 1
3) get the files to computer B and either
a) install them with "sudo dpkg -i file1.deb file2.deb ...", or
b) put them in /var/cache/apt/archives/, and then use apt-get or synaptic to install the packages.