Chris Devers wrote:
> 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.
>
We have Sun computers at uni running Solaris. Would it run Fink? Also, would
I not need root privileges?
>
> 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.
Would it work if I download the binary packages from the Fink site and put
them in /sw/fink/dists/... at home? Would Fink recognize the packages?
Thanks so far!
Jakob Malm
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