Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote:
> I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20
> web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http,
> they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them.
>
> They are not available via ftp from the web site in question,
> and even using my windows machine I can't get them to
> download and moved to my potato box without them being
> corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked
> ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would
> not compile.
Proper solution:
Inform maintainer of web site to fix up the MIME type of downloaded
files. It sounds like the web server is making files with the extension
*.deb text/plain, when this is incorrect (and should be easy to fix).
Note on Lynx:
Push 'd' to download a link to a file instead of viewing it
(or installing it).
--
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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