Ubuntu Air-Gapped Servers Package Retrieval

getdebs.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Used for Airgapped Ubuntu Servers; downloads package and required dependencies
# Just SCP them over to the server that needs them. Ensure OS/Kernel is the same on both.
# Feel free to comment if you have a suggestion to improve the script

read -p "Please enter the package name you would like to look for: " packagesearch

apt-cache search "$packagesearch"

read -p "Please enter the verified package name you would like to download: " package

apt-cache depends "$package" | grep Depends: >> deb.list

sed -i -e 's/[<>|:]//g' deb.list

sed -i -e 's/Depends//g' deb.list

sed -i -e 's/ //g' deb.list

filename="deb.list"

while read -r line
do
    name="$line"
    apt-get download "$name"
done < "$filename"

apt-get download "$package"