Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 01:53:26PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. No, it just downloads them without any interpretation at all. Same as wget downloads a file. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB. CCs of replies on mailing lists are welcome.
Re: Lynx and .deb
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. and alas, quite nonfunctional ... But I did get the source files and compiled it eventually. For the Linux version, whats the difference? I am sure I have quite successfully downloaded a number of binary files using D. Only problem I have is sometimes Lynx will abort a long transfer without displaying any error message, so the user is left with an smaller the desired file and wondering why it is currupt. There is a long standing bug report against Lynx on this, including a patch (I don't think it has ever been integrated but I haven't got any response from the maintainer, either). So, whenever you download a file with Lynx, check that the destination file size is correct. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx and .deb
I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Any suggestions would be appreiciated. Todd At 10:36 AM 11/7/1999 +1100, Brian May wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: True, but not really relevant. The MIME type returned by the server determines if the client sees the deb as text or not. Contact the server admins and have them add entries to mime.types. Only applies if http is used. If some other protocol (eg ftp) is used (possibly via http proxy), the server cannot return a MIME type. I don't know how good programs (eg Lynx and Squid) are at determining the file type by the extension. Unfortunately, the original poster failed to specify how the file is downloaded. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Lynx and .deb
On 06-Nov-1999, Todd Suess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Any suggestions would be appreiciated. Todd If you are downloading them using netscape, try pressing shift when you click on the file you wish to download. Pete
Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Any suggestions would be appreiciated. Try using wget or dog. They'll download http documents non-interactively and with no interpretation. There was a thread on these particular .deb's a few days ago on this list; did you read it? --Dylan Thurston [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Proper solution: Inform maintainer of web site to fix up the MIME type of downloaded files. It sounds like the web server is making files with the extension *.deb text/plain, when this is incorrect (and should be easy to fix). Note on Lynx: Push 'd' to download a link to a file instead of viewing it (or installing it). -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx and .deb
Todd Suess writes: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Any suggestions would be appreiciated. Install the wget package: wget url Brian Servis -- Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: [long, complex conversation about downloading .debs from Lynx snipped] Wow, has everyone forgotten that you can press d on any link and download it instead of displaying it? This includes viewable files like HTML and text, so should work fine with no conversion or corruption. Or am I missing the point? -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/JMarkevich Let sleeping dogs lie. -- Charles Dickens
Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, 6 Nov 1999, Todd Suess wrote: I am actually trying to download the debs from the pine 4.20 web page. No matter how I try to download them, using http, they come out as corrupt when dpkg tries to install them. They are not available via ftp from the web site in question, and even using my windows machine I can't get them to download and moved to my potato box without them being corrupt. I tried to download the tar source, and that worked ok, but the web browser whacked the diffs file and it would not compile. Which web page are using? If http://debianpine.tripod.com, don't bother. Use http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine the .debs there are known to be good. With netscape you have to right click on the link and select save as... If you still have problems let me know. I am the maintainer of those .debs. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lynx and .deb
Which web page are using? If http://debianpine.tripod.com, don't bother. Use http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine the .debs there are known to be good. With netscape you have to right click on the link and select save as... If you still have problems let me know. I am the maintainer of those .debs. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, yes, it was your page I was trying to get them from. :) I was finally able to use lynx to get the source tarball, diff and dsc file and was able to compile it into debs myself, but every time I tried to get the debs they were sent as text, and thus, corrupt. I didn't try netscape, I did try IE, Lynx and Opera, and used the right click - save as method, but they still came out corrupt. But at least I did get Pine 4.20, compiling it was not a big deal. Thanks! Todd
Re: Lynx and .deb
Pressing d or D on the .deb file links downloads them fine, AS TEXT. and alas, quite nonfunctional ... But I did get the source files and compiled it eventually. -Todd On Sun, 07 Nov 1999, Jonathan Markevich wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 09:57:13PM -0500, Todd Suess wrote: [long, complex conversation about downloading .debs from Lynx snipped] Wow, has everyone forgotten that you can press d on any link and download it instead of displaying it? This includes viewable files like HTML and text, so should work fine with no conversion or corruption. Or am I missing the point? -- Jonathan Markevich [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.xoom.com/JMarkevich Let sleeping dogs lie. -- Charles Dickens
Lynx and .deb
I have used lynx for a while but am not familiar with it's advanced functionality, I have pored through the docs but cannot seem to find out where I can tell Lynx that when downloading a .deb file it should NOT download it as text. ;) does this have to do with system mime types, etc, or is there something I can add to lynx.cfg that will let it know that .debs are binary? Thanks! Todd
Re: Lynx and .deb
Yup, it goes to a deb file, and there is an entry for deb in /etc/mime.types for a deb listing it as a debian package file, but perhaps that is not explicit enough for lynx, which insists on downloading them as content: text -Todd On Sat, 06 Nov 1999, Jan Ludewig wrote: On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:54:03AM -0500, root wrote: I have used lynx for a while but am not familiar with it's advanced functionality, I have pored through the docs but cannot seem to find out where I can tell Lynx that when downloading a .deb file it should NOT download it as text. ;) does this have to do with system mime types, etc, or is there something I can add to lynx.cfg that will let it know that .debs are binary? Thanks! switch to advanced mode ( O to get to the options) to see wether the link really goes to a deb-file type d for download or define it as a mime-type ;) Jan
Re: Lynx and .deb
On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 04:54:03 -0500, root wrote: [Why are debs being downloaded as text] I have pored through the docs but cannot seem to find out where I can tell Lynx that when downloading a .deb file it should NOT download it as text. ;) does this have to do with system mime types, etc, On Sat, Nov 06, 1999 at 05:43:24 -0500, Todd Suess wrote: Yup, it goes to a deb file, and there is an entry for deb in /etc/mime.types for a deb listing it as a debian package file, True, but not really relevant. The MIME type returned by the server determines if the client sees the deb as text or not. Contact the server admins and have them add entries to mime.types. Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
Re: Lynx and .deb
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: True, but not really relevant. The MIME type returned by the server determines if the client sees the deb as text or not. Contact the server admins and have them add entries to mime.types. Only applies if http is used. If some other protocol (eg ftp) is used (possibly via http proxy), the server cannot return a MIME type. I don't know how good programs (eg Lynx and Squid) are at determining the file type by the extension. Unfortunately, the original poster failed to specify how the file is downloaded. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
