I need to install the broadcom-wl wireless adaptor drivers. I have no
connection to the internet on this new installation. So it's either this
or tethering the iphone to get this package installed.
Both of these pathways require a plethora of steps to install various
dependencies for dependencies. I was a debian user in the early 90s, and
remember alarm at the penchant of devels to split everything into packages;
now I can remembery why....
Anyway, I need build-depends. Make, of all things, is one of the most
difficult things to install.
I have installed stretch. Up to this point, it's a fantastic process of
installation. As of now, several problems have kept me back.
1. I used a usb of HD medium, so many packages are on this usb drive, but
it's beyond me how to get apt-get to recognize the USB drive as a rep, and
go ahead and complete the update. Probably I need a list of packages.
2. I cannot find make on this USB drive in pool.
3. I cannot find patch on this USB drive.
4. Individually I have installed a bunch of development packages.
5. Tethering is a huge problem because of ifuse, I think, and other
dependency hells.
This is enough for now. I would very much appreciate some advice on any of
these topics. Once I have broadcom-wl installed it's all downhill I think.
I do have the package, but the dependencies are driving me bats.
Thank you.
Alan Davis
--
[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily
available in books. …The value of a college education is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
---Albert Einstein
"Sweet instruments hung up in cases. . . keep their sounds to themselves."
---Shakespeare, _Timon of Athens_
