Thread: make dselect download 64-bit packages with 32-bit laptop

hi. have no internet connection because of major disagreement dishonest phone company called qwest.
current situatioin use free wifi @ library. leaves me 1 difficult problem: have 64-bit amd machines
@ home, , carry 32-bit laptop library. updating laptop no problem.

manually downloading new software 64-bit machines nightmare because every package download manually
needs 3 more supporting packages , libraries, each of needs more packages, need more...
know, goes on forever.

program dselect solves problem nicely. resolves of dependencies , fetches needed supporting packages.
gotcha that, far, works native 32-bit system in laptop. naturally downloads correct 32-bit packages
itself.

there way put alternate package list (from amd 64-bit machines, /var/cache/apt/* ) somewhere , convince dselect @ list , download 64-bit packages, can use laptop download complete updates , clusters of packages 64-bit amd machines @ home?

thank you.

i don't know dselect, installing , reading man page, use home switch:

environment
home if set, dselect use directory read user specific configuration file.

put in configuration file matter. don't know if there setting ignore architecture (32-bit vs 64-bit).

alternative, assume dselect open source, download source package , through code , comment out check architecture , recompile it. sounds lot of work. might have better luck finding used 64-bit laptop gather packages or find better internet service provider.

method use apt-cache depends <package> , print out package list, pull deb files required packages http://packages.ubuntu.com. it's slow method, can't worse other methods. understanding of package dependencies.

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