Problems with jigdo
Hello
There has got to be a better way. I'm sure some doc, somewhere explains why
the jigdo I downloaded doesn't work, but who can spend the time wading
through all that. Many of us here at HP would really like to see Debian
replace the commercial versions of Linux, but the download and installation
interfaces need to work for everybody, not just the in-crowd.
Ok, insult me now if that's what you want to do, but this is what I did, and
it did not work. I download stuff all the time, so why does Debian have to
be hard ?
1. downloaded, unziped, and read README.txt for i386 jigdo.lite.
2. followed instructions for dealing with a proxy:
Making jigdo-lite use your proxy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To make jigdo-lite use your proxy for its downloads, first
double-click on "jigdo-lite.bat" to start the program. As soon as the
input prompt has appeared, abort the program again and close the
command window.
You will find that jigdo-lite has created a file called
"jigdo-lite-settings.txt" in the same directory as this README.txt
file. Load this into an editor and find the line that starts with
"wgetOpts". The following switches can be added to the line:
-e ftp_proxy=http://LOCAL-PROXY:PORT/
-e http_proxy=http://LOCAL-PROXY:PORT/
--proxy-user=USER
--proxy-passwd=PASSWORD
*******This is way to terse. I think you mean replace //LOCAL-PROXY:PORT/
with something but you need to show the exact syntax - I took a guess and
put in what is in my Iexplorer proxy page **************
3. tried starting jigdo-lite.bat both on the command line and by clicking
its icon in Explorer.
There was no jigdo-lite-settings.txt
4. tried to contact a jigdo URL anyway, using what I guess is a jigdo
URL/file, and got the followin in jigdo-lite-settings.txt which looks more
like some sort of log file:
jigdo='http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r1/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-
jigdo'
debianMirror=''
nonusMirror=''
tmpDir='.'
jigdoOpts='--cache jigdo-file-cache.db'
wgetOpts='--passive-ftp --dot-style=mega --continue --timeout=30'
scanMenu=''
5. So I added the proxy statemnts and the jigdo-lite-settings.txt file
looks like:
jigdo='http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r1/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-
1.ji
gdo'
debianMirror=''
nonusMirror=''
tmpDir='.'
jigdoOpts='--cache jigdo-file-cache.db'
wgetOpts='--passive-ftp --dot-style=mega --continue --timeout=30 -e
ftp_proxy=ht
tp:web-proxy:8088 -e http_proxy=http:web-proxy:8088 --proxy-user=vxtee
proxy-pa
sswd=********'
scanMenu=''
And I got back:
Jigsaw Download "lite"
Copyright 2001-2003 by Richard Atterer <jigdo@atterer.net>
Loading settings from `jigdo-lite-settings.txt'
-----------------------------------------------------------------
To resume a half-finished download, enter name of .jigdo file.
To start a new download, enter URL of .jigdo file.
You can also enter several URLs/filenames, separated with spaces,
or enumerate in {}, e.g. `http://server/cd-{1_NONUS,2,3}.jigdo'
jigdo
[http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r1/jigdo/i386/woody-i386-1.jigd
o]:
Downloading .jigdo file
Proxy http:web-proxy:8088: Must be HTTP.
Proxy http:web-proxy:8088: Must be HTTP.
FINISHED --11:40:39--
Downloaded: 0 bytes in 0 files
File `woody-i386-1.jigdo' does not exist!
Press any key to continue . . .
6. Next I tried to download the jigdo for Linux and got
jigdo-bin-0.7.0.tar.tar file. I've never seen a tar.tar file before.
Changed the last tar to gz but gzip said it wasn't a gzip file. Looked at
the web page and it actually has a bz2 extension, but gzip doesn't like that
either.
7. So much for jigdo.
Vince
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