Re: Package Download Tool?

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

c0ldfusi0n wrote:

> Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:04:02 -0400, c0ldfusi0n 
> > <c0ldfusi0n@mtl2600.org> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > APT (http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/apt)
> > > Which is a frontend for DPKG
> > > (http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/dpkg)
> > >   
> >
> >
> > Ok but how? How does apt or dpkg determine the architecture - and thus
> > how can it be instructed to use a different one?
> >
> >  
> APT uses a file named sources.list located in /etc/apt in which you 
> tell Apt what type of Debian installation you're running (stable, 
> testing or unstable) and where you also specify where to get the 
> packages.



Jack said "cross architechture"

Think, "I want to get powerpc stuff while I'm running on Itanic hardware."

Jack
If your target's running Debian, then you can use apt-get there to list 
the packages you need:

apt-get -y --print-uris install lyx | awk '/http:/ {print "wget " $1}'

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Cheers
John

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