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mzsade

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 276

[SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

Cannot connect to the Internet from my Debian minimal (with OpenBox) after i butchered my network. Saw lots of upgradable firmware in synaptic and also need to reinstall NetworkManager, maybe that's why i can't. Have a LMDE live persistent usb and also another LMDE partition on the same machine with connectivity. Would someone please tell me how to go about it?

I just thought of uncommenting the deb CDRom in my sources.list and plugging in the NetInstall usb to reinstall NetworkManager. But my question still stands regarding updating, upgrading and installing software from a live medium. Thanks.

Last edited by mzsade (2015-09-08 15:52:13)

damo

#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/package-name.deb

mzsade

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

sudo su
TARGET=/media/sda3 #sda3 is my root partition
mkdir -p $TARGET 
mount /dev/sda3 $TARGET
mount --bind /dev     $TARGET/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts $TARGET/dev/pts
mount --bind /proc    $TARGET/proc
mount --bind /sys     $TARGET/sys
cp /etc/resolv.conf    $TARGET/etc/
chroot $TARGET /bin/bash

damo

#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

Last edited by damo (2015-09-08 14:15:55)

mzsade

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

mzsade

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 276

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media

Yaba-daba-doo! That's one heck of a versatile how-to. D

Had a problem initially with

cp /etc/resolv.conf    $TARGET/etc/

Then remembered i had to

rm /etc/resolv.conf && touch /etc/resolv.conf

Rebooted into the Debian installer after doing that, the rest was smooth sailing. Thank you so much, this chroot thing is really awesome!

damo

#! gimpbanger

From: N51.5 W002.8 (mostly)

Registered: 2011-11-24

Posts: 5,434

Re: [SOLVED] Install software in Jessie from any Debian based live media