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help: can I move CLI tools through a usb drive ? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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hello :))

I have problems with the WiFi adapter on my new pc, and in order to troubleshoot I need to use some utils that are not on already on the computer.

is it possible to just copy the binaries from a computer with internet connection onto a usb drive and move them over that way ?

And in that case, how do I make sure to also copy all the dependencies ?

or is there a smarter way do to it all together ? 😅

I hope this is the right community for this question :)) I couldn't find any community specifically for Linux tech support.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Depends on the tools. If they're statically compiled, it should be fine. If they aren't, it might still be fine if the distro and versions are similar. But what you want is statically compiled binaries.

It'll need to be the same architecture (ARM -> ARM good, AMD -> ARM bad), and check each tool on your working computer with ldd; the fewer lib dependencies, the better.

Scripting languages are probably not worth messing with. Even if you have a running interpreter on the broken machine, scripting languages tend to lean heavily on third party libs, which may not be installed. The exception are ba/sh scripts, which have a good chance of using only commonly installed commands (why else use bash?).