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How to remove Ubuntu's automatic internet connection needs?

Imagine that, I have a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installed. But there are some default packages or services that connects to the Internet without my consent. How to get rid of them completely or make them ...
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steam fatal error "steam needs to be online to update, but was set to offline movies."

I tried re-installing it but it simply keeps giving me this error in a little window. When I close it, an identical error pops up some 3 seconds later without any new provocation.
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Snapd is downloading without my permission

One day, I noticed that my Internet is being used. After using sudo nethogs I found that package called snapd is downloading something from internet regularly without my consent. The only snap program ...
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Getting .deb package dependencies for an offline Ubuntu computer through Windows

Basically I want to "batch" download a .deb file and all its dependencies at once on a Windows 7 machine (of which I do not have admin access, it is a public computer.) I've seen plenty of Ubuntu ...
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How can I install 'Adobe Flash Player' offline? [duplicate]

My friend has a computer with Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit, but he has no internet connection. He'd like to install the Adobe Flash Player on his computer. How to do that?
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How to make Google Drive folder available offline?

I'm using Google Drive, mounting it automatically after logged in in online account, but I've read that Google Drive mounted doesn't keep a offline copy of the drive so any access take a long time. Is ...
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Unattended Offline Edubuntu 14.04 Install

I am looking for a way to do this offline with Edubuntu 14.04 desktop. It would install much faster and better for large-scale deployments. It seems that contrary to some guides, kickstart is no ...
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How to download a software package with all dependencies and sub-dependencies?

Similar questions have been asked already but none of them have solved my problem: I need to install a package on a standalone Linux box, specifically kdbg. Now I tired the command sudo apt-get ...
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Identify snap apps in the apt repository (before having them installed)

Since I am using my servers in an offline environment I usually mirror the ubuntu archive - works perfectly! Now shocking I found that chromium-browser is a snap app in U20.04 LTS. So it does not ...
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How can I cache specific web pages for offline viewing?

I occassionally need to work offline by accident or design. I'd like to maintain a flexible list of web pages that I can cache for easy offline access. Notes: I'd like to simulate online browsing as ...
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Download and install ubuntu packages and dependencies on a server without internet connection

I'm trying to download all packages and needed dependencies on a server with working internet connection and transfer them on server without internet connection and then install them via apt-get. I ...
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How to run full text search on help pages offline (from Yelp / gnome-help or something other)?

I have both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed. I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages in /usr/share/help and other ...
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How can I browse Ubuntu Wiki offline?

I am accustomed to offline wiki browsing. I thought it would be great if I can read Ubuntu wiki in the same way. Is there anyway I can read Ubuntu Wiki offline? Help will be much appreciated if I ...
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Gmail offline on Firefox 4.0.1: "Offline Mail is not supported by your browser"

I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and its default browser Firefox 4.0.1. A pretty standard configuration, so I am surprised that Gmail offline cannot be configured and tells me: Offline Mail is not supported ...
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How to install programs on other Ubuntu machines without using the Internet

I have several computers running Ubuntu. I also have a slow Internet connection. If I install programs using apt-get, does that put installation files somewhere which I can access, so that I can use ...
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Taking The Cores Offline

I have Intel® Core™ i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz × 8 process which has 4 physical cores and 4 logical cores. Most of the time i been on AskUbuntu, Watching videos, Basically no processor hungry stuff. ...
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Can I download .deb packages with their dependencies automatically?

I have a new Ubuntu 12.04 that's not connected to the internet. So I download .deb files into my phone and send it to my PC via USB cable. But the dependencies that are required are giving me a real ...
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I changed cpus from a 3900X to a 3950X but now Ubuntu will only use the original 24 cores. Cores 24-31 are permanently offline after each reboot

I changed cpus from a 3900X to a 3950X but now Ubuntu will only use the original 24 cores. Cores 24-31 are permanently offline after each reboot. I have tried multiple times to change the online file ...
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Documentation / guides for offline ubuntu phone scopes

I've been working on an Ubuntu phone scope that is NOT connecting to the internet, it is retrieving local results. I am having difficulty, which is mostly due to not having a guide for how to write a ...
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Bangla fonts not working in LibreOffice

How can I install custom Fonts offline? I want to use Bangla fonts in LibreOffice 5 Some words are not showing correctly, for example (গ্রাম) is showing as (গ্ রাম) . mentioned that I am using ibus-...
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Alternative to 'GNOME Character Map'?

Is there a utility similar to 'GNOME Character Map' which allows searching by name? I tend to Google/Bing for things like 'unicode white smiling face', but that does not work on an airplane ☺.
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a catch-22 situation with apt-offline

I am installing ubuntu 12.04 onto a HP 1U rack server that is in a lab with no internet connection. I need to install PHP, Nginx and other packages so that I can run my web app on it that will serve ...
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How can I download archive of ubuntu community documentation so that i can use it offline?

How can I download archive of ubuntu community documentation so that i can use it offline?
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How to make KHelpCenter show info-pages, man-pages and information from ScrollKeeper database and make full text search?

I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed. I want to search for documentation and read it off-line (as it is included to the installed packages). Yelp does not work for this purpose. So I tried to use ...
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How do we install Unity-2D and dependencies offline?

We have installed 11.04 32-bit on an old machine that has no internet connection and with a graphics card that is not suitable for running Compiz or Unity. Still, we would like to run Unity-2D on this ...
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Offline installing libxml2-dev in Ubuntu 15.04

Hi I'm kinda new to Ubuntu and have a problem. I don't have any internet on my pc and wanto install the libxml2-dev package to my system. I've gotten hold of a .deb file which I can open with the ...
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How can I install Wine without Internet?

I don’t have Internet, and I use Internet through a USB modem device which is supported in only Windows, so I tried to install Wine to run that software, and I downloaded Wine but it says dependency ...
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What checks should be used when installling non-repository or offline software? [closed]

Case 1) Let's say some software isn't available in the repositories and you have to download it from a website and install it. Case 2) You have downloaded a DRM free paid software but can no longer ...
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How to create package download script with correct dependencies?

In Synaptic it's possible to select a bunch of packages for installation (or reinstallation), then just click File → Generate package download script to get a set of commands to download the ...
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Is there a way on ubuntu to keep offline files like in windows?

In windows there is a option when you browse network folders that copies selected files to local disk. Then you can work with those files, create, modify, delete and when you are in the same network ...
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Where are thunderbird messages saved while offline?

Yesterday I wrote an email while offline and, since it was not ready I chose the "save" option instead of "send later". My account is a gmail account and now that I'm connected, I can't find the ...
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connect a laptop to a desktop via Ethernet cable (both offline)

I have a laptop and a desktop Two computers have Ubuntu 16.04 and connected through Ethernet cable, but two are offline, so no internet. I wanna make the laptop as the main computer and I want to use ...
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Installing one package offline on a currently supported Ubuntu release

I have a Windows machine with internet and an Ubuntu 16.04 machine without an internet connection, and I need build-essentials to compile some of my code. I've read about it online, but I'm having ...
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how to install ruby offline?

I am trying to install ruby on a server which does not have connection to internet. I have copied ruby-1.9.2-p180.tar into ~/.rvm/archives. I tried to run rvm install ruby-1.9.2-p180 after that, but ...
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How to download Ubuntu updates to a flash drive, and use it to update other PCs?

If: (a)- your PC is a totally offline system or: (b)- you have multiple PCs with the same kind of hard and software configuration, Is it possible to download the latest upgrades to a USB flash drive, ...
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Apt-mirror key question

Before downloading PPAs with apt-mirror I need to have the PPA GPG key installed in my key ring, e.g. by using the command add-apt-repository ppa:something/ppa After this (and editing mirror.list) ...
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Does apt-offline update Linux or just packages?

I have a Linux build which is 100% quarantined from the internet. I've learned that Cube Server as well as apt-offline will help me install applications offline, which is great. But what's less clear ...
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How to download kde or gnome from synaptic for offline installation

I know how to install GNOME 3 and KDE using apt-get. But i want to know how to, only download, from synaptic package manager, these shells. When i search for kubuntu-desktop in synaptic then the ...
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Can I reinstall and keep updates and software from my wubi installation?

I already have Ubuntu 11.10 which I installed it using 'wubi'. Now I noticed that this kind of installation have some limitation like I can't hibernate and etc. Now I want to reinstall my Ubuntu ...
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How do I install non-free drivers and codecs without an Internet connection?

I have installed ubuntu 10.10 on my pc. I dont have internet connection. Now i haven't installed third party software like for music, video, graphics, display. So how do i do that? Please help me.
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Offline updating various Ubuntu versions

If I am looking to provide an offline update for several Ubuntu Linux devices using varying Ubuntu versions, how can I use one update file to standardize them all to the latest release? I've seen that ...
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How to download and install a single package with all it's dependencies? [duplicate]

How to download a package with all its dependencies So that it can be installed later on another computer without the internet. I tried at Official packages for Ubuntu. But it also needs to be ...
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How can I install software without internet? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I install software offline? At this moment I have next situation: I have 2 computers: First computer with Windows 7 and connection to the internet; Second computer ...
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How to add offline dictionary to Calibre?

"I have recently installed calibre for ebook reading. To find the meaning of unknown words, the calibre has an option to look into the dictionary. I know to use an online dictionary with calibre. ...
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Offline Ubuntu repos - how to get Ubuntu to use them?

I'm setting up a bunch of XUbuntu build servers running on VMware vSphere, which for IT policy reasons aren't allowed to access the internet. Of course this means I can't get updates or new packages ...
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How Do I Use Apt with an Offline Mirror of a PPA Repository?

I'm a Linux noob but a longtime Windows/DOS user. I'm running Ubuntu Trusty on an air-gap network (see below). As a baseline, I'm already able to use APT with an offline Ubuntu repository to install ...
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Headers for the kernel were not found

Im trying to install the guest additions for the virtualbox. my main operating system is xubuntu and the OS on the VB is ubuntu 14.04 so I have the iso file on CD (the computer is offline), and when ...
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offline libreoffice

Problem: when my laptop is offline, libreoffice freezes. When network is on, everything seems normal, when I shut down the network, libreoffice hangs. This is the case on my laptop, I struggled with ...
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How do I add extra packages for an offline install of server?

I've been following this guide and everything has worked great EXCEPT for the offline packages part: How to create a Customized Ubuntu Server ISO?. Basically, I need to add a set of packages into the ...
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install Electum (BTC) on offline live USB

I would like to install the bitcoin client Electrum on an offline live USB drive. This would help to create and restore wallets most securely. The install instructions are as follows: Install python-...
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