I installed Debian Trixie (debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso) with the help of a USB stick. This has been my customary way of installing Debian.
On this occasion I did something different.
I copied a file called packages.txt to the same USB flash drive. The former contains a long list of packages to be installed.
During the installation process, I didn’t install a desktop environment.
After installation, my computer booted into a tty1 console.
At the tty1 console, I did the following:
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sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list -
I commented out the line containing the word “cdrom” (without quotes).
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I added the following line:
deb [trusted=yes] file:/media/usbdrive trixie main
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sudo mkdir /media/usbdrive -
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdrive -
sudo apt update
This time round, instead of typing each of the names of some twenty or so packages, the USB stick has a custom file called packages.txt
The following command in tty1 console was what Google suggested to me:
sudo apt install $(cat packages.txt)
The error message was:
Unable to locate package1..package2….package3…etc
What I did next was this:
cd /media/usbdrive
I used the ls command to list the files and directories and the file called packages.txt was there.
I’d appreciate it if someone could help fix my problem.
