On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:55:44 -0700
Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
Usually you only need binary packages, you don't need the sources unless
you want
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:32:42AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > apt-cache --names-only search tcl | grep doc | wc -l
> > 6
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-cache -n search tcl doc | wc -l
> 6
>
> heh. multiple words in the search string saves a pipe and grep ;-P
Too true!
Weird behav
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:47:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > aptitude install python
> >
> > and away it goes... when done you have python.
> >
> > how about tcl?
> >
> > apt-cache search tcl
> >
> > this produces
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> aptitude install python
>
> and away it goes... when done you have python.
>
> how about tcl?
>
> apt-cache search tcl
>
> this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that
> down by searching just the n
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Don't forget that 'aptitude search tcl' also searches only packages
> names.
The ara and xara packages allow for keyword searching in the
description field. I use xara-gtk in the simple mode, and it has an
easy form based interface for searching.
--
Carl Jo
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:03:17 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> how about tcl?
>
> apt-cache search tcl
>
> this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that
> down by searching just the names of packages and not their
> descriptions
>
> apt-cache
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
[...]
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated. Could I simply do an FTP of some
> Debian mirror? What I don't like about this FTP idea or the installer
> as far as that goes is that many of the applications I want are not
> available exc
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
> Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
> understand that all binary
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 05:50:46PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
[huge snip]
Sorry for not trimming. Finger slipped.
Doug.
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On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 02:55:44PM -0700, Admin wrote:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
> download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
> Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
> understand that all binary
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:35:25 -0600
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
> Regarding binaries: The Debian archive typically includes both source
> and binary for each package, but the network installer assumes that
> you can do without the source until the base system is running.
* Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070211 16:00]:
> I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
...
> In other words, I need a Debian system up and running (which I don't
> have at the present time) and even then the packaged binaries and
> sources will be unpacked and placed in
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:55:44 -0700
Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
The Debian archive is huge and it is not trivial to set-up. There is a
method to use CD images as a pseudo-mirror, though I don't think this
is the best way for you (see below). Check this:
http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/in
I download a 128MB network installer iso so that I could use it to
download binariy and source files one at a time from over the internet.
Being new to Debian I tried to understand this process and came to
understand that all binary files are considered to be a "package" sort
of wrapped with d
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