Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-10 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/04 05:40, hugo vanwoerkom wrote: | Hi Debian! | | I find references to such document, but cannot find it. | | Anyone knows where it might exist? | | Thanks. | | Hugo | | It's in the apt-doc package: $ cat /usr/share/doc-base/apt-offline-usage-

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-10 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
hugo vanwoerkom escribió: Hi Debian! I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? Thanks. Hugo You can use httrack and download it ( and print it if necessary). Regards. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread dircha
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? package: apt-howto-[language prefix] e.g.: $ apt-cache search apt-howto # apt-get install apt-howto-en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
hugo vanwoerkom wrote: > I find references to such document, but cannot find it. > Anyone knows where it might exist? I think you are looking for apt-zip? apt-cache show apt-zip These scripts simplify the process of using dselect and apt on a non-networked Debian box, using removable media li

offline apt howto

2004-04-04 Thread hugo vanwoerkom
Hi Debian! I find references to such document, but cannot find it. Anyone knows where it might exist? Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

offline apt with a twist

2002-01-10 Thread John Tyner
I have two machines that have no network connection that I need to keep updated. I read the offline apt document on how to use apt on another, networked machine to keep my standalones up to do date, but I have one problem. Due to the nature of the use of the stand alone machines, they are "

offline apt with a twist

2002-01-08 Thread John Tyner
I have two machines that have no network connection that I need to keep updated. I read the offline apt document on how to use apt on another, networked machine to keep my standalones up to do date, but I have one problem. Due to the nature of the use of the stand alone machines, they are "

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-03 Thread Thomas Bleicher
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:00:24AM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > I got this reply off-list: > > On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > > I do: > > > > apt-get -qq --print-uris [upgrade | install ] > urls > > > > and then run my script on the file urls. Now it has a name to ;) $

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-03 Thread Ross Burton
I got this reply off-list: On Sat, 2001-09-01 at 12:40, Thomas Bleicher wrote: > However, I'm in the same situation and I wrote a small python-script to > split the file with all the needed packages for an upgrade into > zip-sized wget-scripts (and show me some statistics I'm interestet in). > >

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread John Hasler
Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. Just do 'dpkg -i foo.deb bar.deb baz.deb'. The order of the package names on a dpkg command line doesn't matter. Osamu Aoki writes: > Oh well, just run above command couple times, it will resolve > depe

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:38:31AM +, Rajesh Fowkar wrote: > Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: > >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > > > >$ cd download/directory/; su > ># dpkg -i *.deb > > > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. > > What about

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Osamu Aoki saw fit to inform me that: >I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: > >$ cd download/directory/; su ># dpkg -i *.deb > >If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. What about dependecies ? For that apt-get is the correct tool. If u are going to install de

Re: Offline APT

2001-09-01 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Ross Burton saw fit to inform me that: >Hi, > >At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At >work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the >instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) >to get a package list from apt wh

Re: Offline APT

2001-08-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
I would do quick job as follows using dpkg: $ cd download/directory/; su # dpkg -i *.deb If you need to install some package in some order, install them first. Cheers :-) On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:53:03PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connecti

Offline APT

2001-08-31 Thread Ross Burton
Hi, At home I run Debian Sid, but only have a dial-up connection (56k). At work, however, I run RedHat 6.2 but have a leased line. I followed the instructions in the offline document (/usr/share/doc/apt/offline.html) to get a package list from apt which can be retrieved via wget. So now I have

Re: offline apt-get update?

1999-11-27 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Vincent Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the > connected machine. i don't (it's a windows machine with wget). > > to repeat: i need to manually download the Packages.gz files from the > archives listed in sources.list, whi

Re: offline apt-get update?

1999-11-22 Thread Vincent Murphy
= Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991122 1450]: > Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in > /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz yeah i have read that, but it doesn't answer my question. the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the connected machine. i don't (i

Re: offline apt-get update?

1999-11-22 Thread Brian Servis
Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz Abstract This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment, specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades. *- On 22 Nov, Vincent Murphy wrote abou

offline apt-get update?

1999-11-22 Thread Vincent Murphy
i have a potato machine which doesn't have access to the outside world except through a windows machine on the same ethernet segment. moving the outside-world-access to the potato machine and proxying for the windows machine is not an option, and installing wingate on the windows machine would be