Re: debian manuals

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:22:58PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-07-30 17:53:47, schrieb Lukasz Szybalski:
> > Hello,
> > If I wanted to get a file that is listed in contents-i386.gz:
> > 
> > Example:
> > usr/share/doc/ant/README.Debian                    devel/ant
> > 
> > How would I do it?
> > Where would I get it from?
> > 
> > 1 Get it from http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant ?
> > 1b. What is the package name for stable that corresponds to devel/ant = 
> > ant***.deb?
> > wget http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/ant**????.deb
> 
> ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
> devel:/# apt-cache policy ant
> ant:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 1.6.5-5
>   Version table:
>      1.6.5-5 0
>        1000 ftp://ftp.debian.org sid/main Packages
> devel:/# wget ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/ant/ant_1.6.5-5_i386.deb
> ----8<----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> And then use "mc" to extract it without installing

You may save few typing by using dget instead of wget :-)

Osamu