How Can I Perform an Offline ntop Packages Installation ?

If your system is unable to connect to the Internet, you can install packages offline as follows:

  • Use a system with Internet access for downloading packages. It can be a system with a different OS with respect to the target ntop system.
  • Based on the OS distribution of your target system, go to https://packages.ntop.org and move to the distribution URL. For instance for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS dev, go to https://packages.ntop.org/apt/24.04/
  • Download the directory and its sub-directories. Example:
    wget –recursive –no-clobber https://packages.ntop.org/apt/24.04/
  • Copy the downloaded files to the the target system (or copy them on a USB stick that you can use to bring the files to the target system).
  • Install the package you are interested in with the platform packager. Example for Ubuntu:
    dpkg -i <package name>.deb
  • The above command will probably fail are there are other dependencies that are part of the downloaded files. You need to install them on the same command line. Example:
    dpkg -i <dependency 1>.deb <dependency 2>.deb  <dependency 3>.deb  <package name>.deb
  • After the installation you can delete the downloaded packages installation files.
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