Re: dpkg feature implementation
"dE ." <de.techno@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:31 AM, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:59:40PM +0530, dE . wrote:
>>> Problem is you have to make these DVD/CD, or in general storage media.
>>> Windows people are not willing to do that...they just want click and
>>> install.
>>
>> You want people to be able to install packages without a network, and
>> without using DVDs/CDs.
>>
>> What, pray, are you intending them to click on if it's neither media nor a
>> network resource?
>>
>
> What about a single package which was brought on a pendrive and made
> to install on just clicking it?...gdebi style.
>
> I've repeated this many times now.
That pendrive contains the install button and an iso image with the
repository. When you click at the install button it mounts the iso,
runs apt-cdrom, and apt-get install and cleans up again.
Problem solved.
MfG
Goswin
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