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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
If you decide to build Sigil yourself, there's still build-tools and dependencies that are going to have to be met that will be a nightmare to try and get in order without a direct internet connection.
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Several years ago I set up a MythTV box for the first time whilst having no internet at home. It was a 'proof of concept' initially and so I used old hardware including a couple of hard-drives borrowed from other PCs.
I started with a Suse DVD from a Linux magazine and researched what sources I might need and downloaded them at work. I think I burned them on to a re-writable DVD.
I mention the harddrives because whilst MythTV itself had a fair amount of dependencies, I also had to (well not had to but really wanted to) re-compile my kernel so it had LVM support (so I could stripe my filesystem across the different physical disks - otherwise I only had space enough for a few recordings).
All in all there was a lot of compiling and whilst it took a few days of "compile, hit a problem, find answer and/or download missing software and repeat", it was fewer than you might think.
If the OP has another computer connected to the internet in the same house then he's already better off than I was.
Still it's a fair amount of work and those were the days when I did that sort of thing for fun.
More serious suggestion - but still involves some work - it appears Deepin is based on Debian Sid, which does have a sigil 0.9.7 package (
see here) so you could install it from a .deb package downloaded via the other laptop. You might go through a few cycles of trying to install and having to get more dependency .deb's but it might be worth a try.