Re: Lynx and .deb

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

Todd Suess writes:
>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.
>
>Any suggestions would be appreiciated.
>

Install the wget package:

wget <url>


Brian Servis
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