On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jakob Malm wrote:
> I currently have no way of accessing the internet from my iMac at home
> (broken down modem), but have a high speed connection at university and
> means to transport files between school and home on CD.
The easiest, though maybe not fastest, would be to download the sources
from your school machine, burn them to disc, then put them on your iMac
and build them there. Many people do this. This works much easier if both
machines are running Fink (hence both run OSX, hence both are Macs),
though it can be done even if the original is Windows or Linux.
If the school machine is able to run Fink, then install it and run:
% fink fetch-all
This will attempt to download all packages which aren't already on that
machine's hard drive. They will be placed in /sw/src on that computer. Put
the ones you want (the total size might be beyond what a single cd can
hold, apparently there's over a gigabyte of available software now) on the
CD, bring it home, then copy the files over to the /sw/src directory on
your iMac. Then if you issue, say, "fink install gvim", Fink should detect
that the file it needs is already available, and won't attempt to download
it again. Repeat as needed for everything else you want to install.
If the school computer is more powerful than what you have at home, you
might want to build them from there. This will produce .deb archives
(related to the package format that Debian Linux uses) that are already
compiled and can be installed as easily as any other binary installer
(again, using "fink install gvim" [or whatever] as the command line). The
deb files gets organized under /sw/fink/dists/...../{category}, and are
symlinked to /sw/fink/debs/. You might be able to just copy them to that
debs/ dir, but I'm not positive. In any case, zipping up the whole tree
under /sw/fink and copying it to the home machine should take care of
most issues there.
If this isn't in the docs, it should be. I'll poke around...
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