what do I need to do to make repositories available offline/to download them?

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Hi,

in the next future I need to install openSUSE on a computer which does not have internet connection. Or better: it may have internet, but just slow…

that´s why I was thinking about “why not download all packages for updating the system after install”. I also searched for that but I did not find what I was looking for, as I don´t have a clue how to download the stuff…

I know how the repos are stored and I could access all the packages by browser but I don´t think that this is the right way to download them…?

so the first question will be: how do I download the repo? Is there a certain terminal command? I read something with wget… but I did not understand that. Is it just

wget [link to repo]

??

The next question is: lets say I have downloaded the whole repo on an external harddrive, how do I tell the offline-computer that this harddrive is the repo where it should take the packages and install them?

I am really confused about that, so a step by step howto would be great. Or pointing me on an existing howto as I did not find one…

any help would be appreciated!

Thanks
Steffen

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Assuming you use the DVD as install media. That covers you for the OSS and NON-OSS
Then all you really need is Updates

We have a user who does a mutlimedia repo for offile use
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/468046-multimedia-pack-portable-opensuse-12-1-a.html

I use gftp myself to sync a repo to my HD. Which you could do with updates

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thanks for the answer!

I use gftp myself to sync a repo to my HD. Which you could do with updates

so is it then in the terminal (for example)

gftp http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Release:/47/openSUSE_12.1

for, lets say as an example, the KDE repo with the newest stable content?

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It has a UI
This is a sync setup for wine repo
SUSE Paste

The left side is your local HD
Above that you can see the Host connection to wine repo. When you click the computer icon it will connect, ignore the request for passwords etc, just leave it blank and click OK
The right hand side will then fill with the repo content
Although IIRC with this one I had to drill either up or down through the tree as I was using a mirror and it landed slightly off location

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ok, now I got it.

the connection is breaking up all the time. I´ll try it tomorrow then again. Thank you!