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Re: downloading from 'OTHER' operating systems ...



On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:34:38PM +0000, Justin Vander Ziel wrote:
> I'd like to make a request: I regularly download pkgs from the web at work
> where I have a T1 and then haul them home on my USBdrive. Unfortunately, I
> work in the Windows environment where I have the T1 and I cannot use apt
> to automatically determine dependencies. Could some kind soul please spell
> the dependencies out in a README somewhere so I know. For example, I
> burned a CD last week with OpenOffice.org debs thinking I had gotten all I
> need only to discover that I needed libstlport4.5gcc3.0 to install.

Sorry, apt can do this work for you and is much more reliable than someone
keeping a text file up to date.  See the --print-uris option.

apt-get --print-uris install openoffice.org openoffice.org-help-en

Chris

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