Re: wget and aptitude with ppp? (fwd)
On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, John Hasler wrote:
> Deboo writes:
> > How to set wget so that it can retrieve/download a list of files given to
> > it, as soon as the ppp connection starts?
>
> Put a script containing a call to wget in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.
>
> > How to set aptitude to download and install packages that were previously
> > given, at start of a ppp connection?
>
> Please clarify. You can put an apt-get command in a script in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up.d, but it's not clear what you are trying to do.
Well, I have limited connection time to the net and so I kinda
found a way to just "queue" the packages I want to download later
when going online. I pass the package name to aptitude install and
when aptitude asks me to confirm, I press Ctrl-C. Now next time when
I go online, I just run aptitude -f install and it is ready to install
anything I previously queued in to it. I would like to do this
automatically when I go online. I guess what you suggest would
work in this case too. Now, just have to figure out what to be put
in the script. I'm not good at scripting.
Regards,
Deboo
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