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Re: Today mozilla-firebird Wants To Remove KDE



Hi!

On Sun Aug 24, 2003 at 07:31:53PM -0400, David Crane wrote:
> This fixed it.  An "apt-get dist-upgrade" would now succeed.  But it 
> will have to wait until next weekend, since it says it will download 
> 291MB of archives, which will take 21.6 hours over my modem.
> 
> I'll try to remove bunches of stuff before I dist-upgrade.

If you do have access do a faster network you can check out apt-zip[1].
It generates a shell script which downloads the deb packages via wget to
a removable media. So you still can download the packages even if the
computer with the fat pipe don't has debian installed.

So long
Thomas

  1. http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/apt-zip.html

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