Download apt-get binary (deb) and all dependencies for target architecture: armhf

Question

I need ppp for a project I am working on but for a different architecture on device which does not have internet access. The actual problem is pretty explanatory from title. Things I've done:

• I've uncommented the deb-src mirrors in the sources.list file
• I've added the option [i386,armhf] (and of course apt-get update'ed) after "deb" in the sources.list file.
• sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf

• I run sudo apt-get build-dep --download-only ppp:armhf but get no result in the current working directory and I just get:

  Reading package lists... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages automatically installed and are no longer required: ... (No errors)

Why is nothing downloading? It's hard for me to give the full output message because I'm running it in a VM and I can't get the copy/paste feature to work.

Thanks in advance for the help

Answer 1

My solution for the same problem looks like this (replace THE_PACKAGE_YOU_WANT with ppp):

dpkg --add-architecture armhf
apt update
apt download $(apt-cache depends --recurse --no-recommends --no-suggests \
                                 --no-conflicts --no-breaks --no-replaces --no-enhances \
                                 --no-pre-depends {{ THE_PACKAGE_YOU_WANT }}:armhf | grep "^\w");

The question is 2 years old, but I hope it works for future googlers! :-)