Re: How to get packages via a Windows box
Danie Roux wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:26:23AM -0500, Gary Setter wrote:
> > I've installed the base Debian system as a dual with MS Windows.
> > I want to install X-Window from the Debian web site. The lab
> > where I'm 'working' has a DSL connection, however, I can only get
> > it to work with Windows. Currently, I'm downloading files via
> > IE to the Dos partition, rebooting to Linux and finishing the
> > install there. For small stuff, I can tolerate this. For
> > X-window, I need to do something better.
> >
> > I've been trying to setup a network connection on the Linux side
> > via pppoe, but I have no support here and it looks like a dead
> > end.
> >
> > I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I
> > could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local
> > mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux
> > this time the local mirror is
> > my source).
> >
> > Has this been done before? Are there binaries I can grab? Do you
> > have any helpful suggestions?
>
> If you're running Woody or Unstable, the easiest is the --print-uris option of
> apt-get. I use this for example:
>
> $ apt-get install aspell --assume-yes --print-uris | sed s/\'//g | grep http | cut -f 1 -d " "
>
> This gives me a list like this:
>
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/aspell_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/libaspell8_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.4b-2_i386.deb
> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pspell/libpspell2_0.11.2-2.5_i386.deb
> >
> There is a script on vim.sf.net to convert this to GetRight whatever files. And
> you do get wget for windows.
>
Hmm. This looks good, but I think this guy's biggest problem is to get
the
packages files. He won't be able to run "apt-get update" on his box, and
so
apt won't know the urls for the debs. (This is the same problem I have
posted
~1 hour ago -- how to get apt up-to-date on an offline box?)
So, if anybody can help us, please..
joerg
--
Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you
will hear the voice of Satan?
That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
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