Installing build-essential with no connection and no CDrom

[Tottish]

Hi! (I'm new here and very much a Linux noob)
Sorry for this being a double post. I didn't realize that it was stupid to post a problem in a thread that was marked as "SOLVED"... Feel free to remove the other post I made, I can't do it myself it seems...

Anyway:
I'm having headaches about not being able to install build-essential on my 9.10. I don't have an internet connection and no CDrom.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-381532.html
So that solves it if you have a CD drive...

What to do if a poor fella (like me) was to have a system with no CD drive?

I installed from USB PENDRIVE and I suppose there have to be some command corresponding to apt-cdrom but for the USB drive but I can't find one.

Help, please. =)

Have a nice day!
/Tottish

[mac9416]

Hi, Tottish,

Do you have the Ubuntu install CD ISO? You may we able to mount that and use it like a CDROM.

Alternatively, you can use Keryx (http://keryxproject.org) to download the packages on an online machine and install them on the offline machine.

[Tottish]

Thanks a lot for the answer!
Keryx solved my problems partially but I didn't manage to get all the software that I wanted that way so I got off my *** and bought a new WLAN-adapter that was easier to get to work than my old D-link.

Thanks!
Have a beautiful day!
/Tottish

[mac9416]

Glad to hear your problem's solved. You have a good one too!