These were probably dependencies? Did it tell you what they were? if you
have the name, you can go and download the files, then save them to your
flash drive, transfer to your offline PC in your home directory and install
them from a terminal like "dpkg -i package.name" where "package.name" is
the name and extension of the file(s) you are missing.

You can also find what the dependencies are for the program with apt in the
terminal (on your "on line" computer). For example, if you are installing
the gnome network manager that comes with ubuntu, "apt-cache depends
network-manager-gnome" will give you a list of dependencies and recommended
programs to download and install.

There may be an easier way for resolving installations for a pc that is off
line, but I don't know what they may be. Someone else might. You'll
probably want to do some reading if you go the dpkg / apt way in a
terminal.

(If you could get a temporary hard wire connection, that would be best)

I will try that.

BTW, I have a hard wire connection, but without a connection manager, it wont go
on line.

After a tough fight, I got it installed and now everything works.

I had to use the install CD to get most of the packages but one I had to
download on another computer.

I got Network manager to work on a wired line, but the indicator would not show
on the panel, tried about 10 fixes from Google and still could not get that
applet to show, even though it worked.

Without it showing, I could not get the wireless on.

I finally reinstalled it through the terminal with sudo apt-get and the
indicator showed up and I got the wireless working.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.