Ubuntu - Como Atualizar Pacotes Sem Acesso a Internet

Você está pronto para atualizar os pacotes do seu Ubuntu, mas não tem conexão de Internet? Seus problemas acabaram. Através do "Synaptic Package Manager" você pode fazer isso sem ter uma conexão disponível no momento.

Dentro do Synaptic -- acessando no menu System > Administration > Synapatic Package Manager -- selecione todos os pacotes que deseja instalar.


Marque tudo para instalação, mas não clique em Apply.


Caso queira atualizar pacotes -- aqueles que aparecem no Ubuntu Update Manager -- clique no botão Mark All Upgrades. Isso vai marcar todos os pacotes que precisam ser autalizados.


Em seguida, clique no menu File > Generate package download script.


No diálogo que abrir, escolha um caminho e um nome para o script.


Esse script nada mais é que uma série de comandos "wget ..." que fazem o download de todos os pacotes que você marcou (incluindo as dependências). Agora você pode copiar esse script para um pendrive ou enviar para outro computador que tenha acesso a Internet. Lá você pode executá-lo e obter todos os pacotes.

Ao trazer os pacotes baixados para o seu Ubuntu, basta voltar ao Synaptic e escolher a opção de menu File > Add downloaded packages. Escolha o diretório onde estão os arquivos *.deb que foram baixados pelo script e clique Open. Os pacotes devem ser instalados sem muitos problemas.


Isso deve funcionar na maioria dos casos. Entretanto, alguns pacotes ainda não estão muito bem preparados para esse tipo de instalação, pois tentam fazer downloads adicionais durante o processo de instalação. Nestes casos, será preciso procurar uma alternativa para baixar essas depdendências.

Apesar dos pesares, essa dica deve ajudar aqueles com conexão muito lenta ou acesso limitado à Internet.

Meu brasil Brasileiro

Todo dia é dia de ver uma coisa nova no meu brasil Brasileiro. Não se preocupe, é assim mesmo que se escreve. No país do samba e do futebol, o Brasileiro será sempre mais importante que o próprio brasil.

Das últimas que apareceram, essa ganhou o Prêmio da Confusão Geral. A notícia veiculada no G1 de São Paulo informa "Fazendeiro acusado de ferir jovem em racha em SP é preso no Pantanal".

Clique e continue lendo... leia até o fim. É por essas e outras que jamais me arrependo de ter nascido aqui, no meu brasil Brasileiro.

The Amazing Story Of A Father's Love For His Son

You can checkout the original video for this story here -- sorry, no subtitles. Portuguese audio only. The following text is an approximate translation/adaptation of the contents of the video.

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Breakfast is the most important part of the day for Vitor, born in Parana, south Brazil. As he fights against GM1 Gangliosidoses on a daily basis, a combination of fruits, along with a special ingredient keeps his health at its most possible. Unfortunately, this rare degenerative brain disease has no cure and causes the lack of a basic enzyme responsible for the digestion of dairy products and the reproduction of brain cells. In other words, his brain naturally dies without the chance to grow any more nerve cells. Vitor was diagnosed only at the age of 9, after countless exams. The diagnosis was given as a death sentence, as doctors gave him aproximately 6 months to live.

Adolfo, his father, was a mechanical engineer. He gave up his job and his profession to try and save his son. "At that moment, I had to make a decision", he says. "I could either watch him die a little everyday, or I could fight for his life and do something about this... I decided to fight". Out of a job, he headed to the Public Library on any spare time, and buried himself under books and the Internet, reading all he could from genetics to clinical medicine. After 8 months, one book had the answers... or at least an alternative.

From his studies, Adolfo found that it was possible to control the advance of GM1 by replacing the enzyme which Vitor could not produce. After being discredited by every doctor he consulted, he started another battle: the search for a laboratory that could produce the enzyme, anywhere in the world. He sent letters, faxes, emails to any institution he could find. Only one responded saying that a laboratory in Japan could have the enzyme in the form he needed. After getting in touch with Japan, a week later he had the enzyme ready in his hands, easily and affordable.

The enzyme can be manipulated by any homeopathic pharmacy into pills, free of any royalties to any pharmaceutical company. Vitor has been taking these pills for over nine years now, and even though the treatment is not 100% effective, the disease has advanced very little ever since. Vitor's father is no expert, but he believes anyone with lactose intollerance or suffering the same illness as his son should be able to benefit from this medicine. Today, Vitor is the only person in the world ever to survive GM1 Gangliosidoses over 11 years.

But Adolfo's dedication to his son did not come without a price. With the reduced income after giving up his job, Adolfo had to stop paying the mortgage on his house and came to he verge of foreclosure. He insisted that the bank reconsidered his situation, but they just wanted the house back. With no where else to go, he filed a federal lawsuit asking the bank to renegotiate the debt into more affordable payments, aledging he had "pretty good reasons" to stop all payments at the time.

Anyone involved in the case, from bank managers to lawyers, who listened to Adolfo's story became consumed with finding an alternative. The judge herself, Anne Karina Costa, came up with an outstanding solution. She remembered that the money the Brazilian government receives from pecuniary punishments is redirected towards assistentialist institutions all over the country. The only problem is that Adolfo, as a private citizen, was not considered an institution. Costa decided to personally file a request to consider Adolfo's life work towards his son as if it were an assistentialist project.

As you can guess by now, the request was accepted, and Adolfo was able to pay off the entire house with government funds. Despite of what Adolfo calls a "miracle", he also recognizes and thanks the involvement of everyone who helped his family. In his own words: "Either rich or poor, we all have financial problems. Either rich or poor, we all have health problems. Problems only change by the address, but they still are the same for everyone. What changes is our decision. Our attitude towards them is what makes the difference. Good decisions will only make the world a better place".