Re: Writing an Apt frontend
On Thursday 14 March 2002 15:03, Ross Burton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking about writing a simple GNOME2 program based upon a routine
> I do every few days:
>
> 1. `dselect update`
> 2. run dselect and examine the list of new and updated packages
> 3. remember which ones I want to upgrade
> 4. in a console, `apt-get -qq --print-uris install [packagenames] >uris`
> 5. take that file to work (dialup at home, fast connection at work),
> transform the using awk into a ncftpget script and run
> 6. bring packages home on zip disk and drop into /var/cache/apt/archives
> 7. re-run `apt-get install [packagenames]
>
Have you looked at apt-zip? It does pretty much the same thing; okay, it has
no gui either, but I never missed that.
cheers,
Yven
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Yven Johannes Leist - leist@beldesign.de
http://www.leist.beldesign.de
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