apt-offline VS meta-package-manager

If you have a USB stick and access to a Windows computer (neighbours, friends, etc.) with Internet access, you can use https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline for this.

Take a look at https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline

One possibility would be http://rickysarraf.github.io/apt-offline/. With this tool you can copy the necessary packages, including their dependencies, to a USB stick and then install them on a computer without internet access.

There was apt-offline that did a very good job as far as that goes.

Check out apt-offline which is packaged for Ubuntu.

I have also seen apt-offline.

Here's the discussion about the "ERROR: Path for keyring invalid" problem with apt-offline: https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline/issues/102

If you cannot establish another network connection, you could solve the problem by using https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline. You will need a Debian based distribution with internet access (a live distribution should probably work) and an USB Stick. This will copy the required package including dependencies to a USB stick. With this you can install the package on the computer without internet connection.

Something like Meta Package Manager? https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager

I use https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager

The result: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/commit/3ab...

Source: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager/

With regular snapshots you can at least eliminate new installed software as the root cause of an issue. Doesn't solve the issue with preferences though.

and let it figure out which package manager to use to install your package.

The project is open-source: https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager#readme

This CLI has some other capabilities, like listing the duplicate packages on your system:

    $ mpm list --duplicates

Potentially somewhat answering my own question (but not completely; i am still interested in your answer) you might be interested in https://github.com/kdeldycke/meta-package-manager is it along the same lines?