Danie Roux wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:26:23AM -0500, Gary Setter wrote: > > I've installed the base Debian system as a dual with MS Windows. > > I want to install X-Window from the Debian web site. The lab > > where I'm 'working' has a DSL connection, however, I can only get > > it to work with Windows. Currently, I'm downloading files via > > IE to the Dos partition, rebooting to Linux and finishing the > > install there. For small stuff, I can tolerate this. For > > X-window, I need to do something better. > > > > I've been trying to setup a network connection on the Linux side > > via pppoe, but I have no support here and it looks like a dead > > end. > > > > I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I > > could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local > > mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux > > this time the local mirror is > > my source). > > > > Has this been done before? Are there binaries I can grab? Do you > > have any helpful suggestions? > > If you're running Woody or Unstable, the easiest is the --print-uris option of > apt-get. I use this for example: > > $ apt-get install aspell --assume-yes --print-uris | sed s/\'//g | grep http > | cut -f 1 -d " " > > This gives me a list like this: > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/aspell_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/libaspell8_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.4b-2_i386.deb > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pspell/libpspell2_0.11.2-2.5_i386.deb > > > There is a script on vim.sf.net to convert this to GetRight whatever files. > And > you do get wget for windows. >
Hmm. This looks good, but I think this guy's biggest problem is to get the packages files. He won't be able to run "apt-get update" on his box, and so apt won't know the urls for the debs. (This is the same problem I have posted ~1 hour ago -- how to get apt up-to-date on an offline box?) So, if anybody can help us, please.. joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you will hear the voice of Satan? That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
