Update packages for Offline RPi

Carey Campbell's icon

Hi, I have some RPis running RNBO inside some sculptures and they (the Pis) haven't been updated for a while. I was going to switch out the soundscape anyway, and figured while I'm SSH-ing in I might as well update everything. BUT...there is no internet access on-site. I can establish a wifi LAN connection to the Pis from my laptop to SSH but in order to update packages do I need internet (WAN) connection?

Alex Norman's icon

yeah, you need to be able to access the internet to install packages from the various apt repositories that we use.

Carey Campbell's icon

Okay thanks. Wasn’t sure whether I could somehow download the packages in advance and then push them to the pis via LAN but yeah I guess that wouldn’t work