My ethernet cable broke so I can ONLY connect to wifi for internet at the moment, but I need to do a fresh install as I just got a new ssd. I don't have any removable media on hand either as I gave my old hard drive to a friend and all of my flash drives are either getting errors or are with other people. I need to know where the bcmwl-kernel-source deb file is on a livecd so I can install, open the livecd in a file manager, and install that package so I get wifi. I've tried making it a source and such but it hasn't worked in the past and I don't want to have to deal with that so I want to know where it would be for a 64b system on a 64b livecd.
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Better try: askubuntu.com/q/4694/158442– muruSep 20, 2014 at 3:45
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All the package files are located in the pool directory:
$ sudo mount ~/Downloads/OS/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.iso /mnt
$ cd /mnt
$ ls
autorun.inf boot casper dists EFI install isolinux md5sum.txt pics pool preseed README.diskdefines ubuntu wubi.exe
$ ls pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
1.1M pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
The layout of pool is like the layout of pool in online repositories.
The md5sum.txt contains the hashes of all the packages, so you can grep it to quickly find out where a package is:
$ grep bcmwl md5sum.txt
3a9fca958bc1e3e78acfae7d040b95da ./pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
The file listing on the image server (ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64.list) also contains the path to all files included.