[Question] Offline package installation

[meraj-kashi]

Hi!
This is a question and not an issue!

Is there any way to install debian packages before creating the ISO? Ubuntu cloud-init needs access to the Internet to install packages, so I am looking for a solution to inject packages during image creation.

Downloading debian packages and injecting through extras file could be a solution, but managing package dependecies is not easy!

The another possible solution could be chroot, but in which step of the script I should do?

Br,
Meraj

[cloudymax]

PXEless doesn't support this at the moment, but if that feature were to be included the location would be here

I would recommend following this guide as it was the source material i followed while writing the squashfs part of the script.

I hope that helps! 👋

[meraj-kashi]

Thank you for your clarification.

The issue resolved. For those who are interested to install packages during image creation:

• Create a bash script (for example offline-config.sh) including all package installation and pre-installed configuration.
• Put the script in extras directory (Directory includes extra files to be added to the image)
• Add the below line to here:

log " - Step 3.5. Package customizing..."
sudo chroot squashfs-root/ /bin/bash /media/offline-config.sh