I have this system that has a basic Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS installation on it, but no network access. I have this set of deb packages which have been copied to some location on said machine. How do I get dpkg and/or apt to recognise these packages as available?
I thought $ sudo dpkg --recursive --record-avail
would do it, and it does see each package and reports "Recorded info about …" for each one, but later attempts to $ sudo apt-get install
or $ sudo dpkg -i
fail just as before the 'record-avail'. I think I'm close but missing something.