On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:27:29PM +0100, GCS said > Hi. > > I am trying to fabricate a script, which runs as a _normal user_, > checks my debs in a specified directory, and recursively download all of > the dependencies. I can iterate on the packages and get the dependencies > parsed from 'dpkg-deb -f package', but how can I download packages? I > have thinking on something like: > apt-get --download-only -o Dir::Cache::Archives=store install zsh > But still, apt-get would like to place the lock in /var/lib/dpkg/, where > I do not have write access. How can I change this? 'man 5 apt.conf' does > not help what config option should I override, and I was unable to find > a complete apt.conf reference. The best I have found is: > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto > But does not contains an apt.conf reference. Another alternative is to use "debget" from debian-goodies. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: mindwar MD5 Fidel Castro Juiliett Class Submarine
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