apt-offline not available on installation media

[riban]

The package apt-offline is not available from the installation media. When installing Ubuntu Server for use on an isolated network, i.e. with no access to the Internet, apt-offline offers a mechanism for applying updates but the first thing one must do is download the package on another machine, transfer it to the server and install it. It would be advantageous to provide this package on the installation media of Ubuntu Server for such scenarios.

This is probably only required for the Server version.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jeff Lambert (jl-newtraxtech)]

Yes, I have to agree, this is dumb. To circumvent this issue, I've been pushing the 1.3 source packages to offline servers and building the utility from command line. (python setup.py build && sudo python setup.py install)