Offline installation

I am doing some support and development voluntary work in Africa, and I am looking for an AutoCAD compatible or close equivalent package for Linux Ubuntu.

The computer I will be setting up will have no Internet access, so I am burning everything I need to disk while I am in Europe. Is there a link to an offline download install that you can post?

Kind regards,

Keith Wilkinson

I wonder whether apt-zip can help

http://wiki.debian.org/AptZip

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Keith Wilkinson [via LibreCAD]
<[hidden email]> wrote:
> I am doing some support and development voluntary work in Africa, and I am
> looking for an AutoCAD compatible or close equivalent package for Linux
> Ubuntu.
>
> The computer I will be setting up will have no Internet access, so I am
> burning everything I need to disk while I am in Europe. Is there a link to
> an offline download install that you can post?


Apt-zip should be exactly what you want:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=46282


Also, Edubuntu comes with LibreCAD by default. So just installing
Edubuntu DVD will come with all the packages you need. If you install
normal Ubuntu, you could just burn an extra edubuntu DVD and add it as
a software source in Ubuntu Software Center. To add the DVD to ubuntu
software center, see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
under the section "Third-Party Software Tab" "CD-ROM/DVD"

If you're going to install Ubuntu and use an Edubuntu DVD, I suggest
using the 11.10 beta DVD of edubuntu since it will contain the newest
version of librecad.



You can also do it manually, but it is more labor intensive (see below)

You can download the packages to burn on a CD. You just need to
download the .deb files for the following packages: librecad,
librecad-data, and librecad-doc.

The packages are .deb files and can be found here (ignore everything
that doesn't end in .deb):
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/libr/librecad/

download the version you'd like (probably ~rc1 for now) for your
architecture (either i386, AMD64, etc) for librecad, librecad-data,
and librecad-doc into a new folder. You can then burn that folder onto
a CD.

To install, open a terminal and navigate to the folder you downloaded them into.

in that folder run:

$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb

which is telling the debian packaging program (dpkg) to install (-i)
all the packages (*.deb) in the folder.

However, you also need to get all the libraries that you are missing
too and follow the above proceedure.

The easiest is to use

in that folder you will have 3
click on




LibreCAD actually comes as a part of Edubuntu, so if you download the
Edubuntu DVD, you will automatically get LibreCAD.