Re: iceape availability
On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes, and no. You can run `apt-get -d install iceape`, and it will
> download the package, and the missing dependencies, to
> /var/cache/apt/archives/. However, if you want to install something on a
> machine without internet access you might be better off with apt-medium
> [1], although I never used that.
>
> And I'm sorry, but I don't understand your second question. I assume
> that you think that the security repository is independent of the
> others, but that's not so. A Debian installation usually uses 3
> repositories together:
> * A "base" repo, containing the release packages
> * A "security" repo, containing security fixes for those packages
> * An "updates" repo that serves updates for non-security relevant bugs
>
> As always, we might be able to better help you if you can give us a
> description of what you want to do.
>
> Regards,
> /peter
>
> Am 25.02.2016 um 09:32 schrieb Bret Busby:
>> On 25/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky <peter@ludikovsky.name> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Searching for a single .deb & trying to install that is the way
>>> proprietary systems handle it. With Debian, and most other Linux
>>> distros, there's repositories, and tools to handle dependencies. Open a
>>> command line / terminal and enter
>>> sudo apt-get install iceape
>>>
>>> It will pull iceape, and all dependencies, from the Debian repos, and
>>> install them.
>>>
>>> Updates are handled similarily.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /peter
>>>
>>> Am 25.02.2016 um 07:08 schrieb Bret Busby:
>>>> Hello.
>>>>
>>>> I searched for a .deb package, for iceape, so that I could download
>>>> the package for the iceape suite, to try to install it.
>>>>
>>>> Ahat I found, is apparently submerged in a "security pool".
>>>>
>>>> I found that what is apparently provided as the iceape suite .deb
>>>> package, is just something that has endless unsatisfiable
>>>> dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> Is an installable .deb package for the iceape suite, available?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Is there a way (a switch for the apt-get command?) to download all of
>> the dependencies? I have looked at man apt-get, and, that has an
>> option "download" (as opposed to install or find), but I could not
>> find, from the man entry for apt-get, how to download the package and
>> all of its dependencies; that is, to download the particular package,
>> and, its dependency packages, so that they can be stored, and,
>> installed (or, tried to be installed) on different systems as wanted.
>>
>> Also, does a means exist, for specifying a particular repository for
>> only the particular instantiation of the command, so that, for
>> example, as iceape is only in the security pool repository, to specify
>> only for the installation of iceape (or, if it can be done, for the
>> download of iceape and its dependencies, to a directory on the
>> computer), the particular repository path?
>>
>>
>
>
Okay.
Explicitly, what I want to try to do, and, the reason that I want to
know whether the repository can be specified for only, and, limited
to, a single instantiation of a download or install command, is to
try to install iceape on a Ubuntu installation.
iceape has functionality that seamonkey does not have, and, the
specific functionality that I want, is the primary reason for me
wanting to try this.
I do not know whether iceape and seamonkey can be concurrently
installed on the same system.
With the LTS for Debian 6 (which I believe to be the latest version
operating system for which iceape is an available package), due to end
on Monday, I want to try an installation on a system, to install
iceape on a new installation of UbuntuMATE 15.10, so that I would
install UbuntuMATE on the system, and then try to install iceape.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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