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Update and install installations which are not connected to the Internet with any apt-tool from an apt-medium. Mange package updates and installations on (multiple) machines - which may not be on the internet or even on a local network - with your favorite apt-tool through a single apt-medium.
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Or allways keep your favorite packages on your apt-medium to have them handy to install anytime anywhere without further downloading. Have packages you downloaded once cached on your apt-medium, so you have them handy to install anytime on other machines without further downloading.

Mange package updates and installations on (multiple) machines - which may not be on the internet or even on a local network - with your favorite apt-tool through a single apt-medium.

Have packages you downloaded once cached on your apt-medium, so you have them handy to install anytime on other machines without further downloading.

An apt-medium contains an apt-medium script to easily perform offline updates and installing additional software on debian(apt) based systems from an removable medium or a network share. Download packages only once to your apt-medium directory and use it to install on multiple machines.

Currently it consists of several scripts that wait for someone to integrate them into a single apt-medium script.

attachment:apt-medium-0.2.tar.gz (extract this, for example on a USB-harddisk)

keywords: offline networkwide update upgrade apt-get aptitude synaptic adept local packages .deb repository


  • "apt-medium"

Manages an installation medium, especially writeable ones, for multiple, even disconnected and remote, machines.

1) You mount your apt-medium directory. (i.e. plug in your USB-disk etc.) or copy it to the hard disk.

2) If you want to install something on the machine you are loged-in to enter:

  • "apt-medium install <package>", and if the necessary packages are already on the apt-medium they will get installed right away. If you want to have something installed on another machine use "apt-medium --machine=<hostname> install <package>"

3) If some Packages are missing on the apt-medium you are told you need to

  • execute "apt-medium download". You might want to do this at another machine with a (faster) internet connection. You can even download on a machine running some other operating system. (with "apt-medium.bat download")

After downloading you just run "apt-medium install" on your target machines, and what you have requested and downloaded for those machines will get installed.

If you want to use a graphical apt-frontend with your apt-medium, for example aptitude or synaptic, you can do so with "apt-medium --apt-tool=aptitude"


Discussion: How a developer should work on this tool? I'm updating the architecture selection code, since i will be updating a 64bit machine sans internet connection.

  • Hi! apt-medium was created as a spin-off to get a otherwise quite tedious update event done. And published because it may be of use for others that could benefit from it, maybe managing (one or many) unconnected machines on a regular basis. Just add diffs and a new tarball to this wikipage, I guess, and you are apt to be the new lead medium developer. Or take it on to cvs/packaging as you like. It's GPLed.


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