Offline Binaries was Re: [Fink-beginners] libgnome, xfree86 mess "update all"

[Alexander Hansen]

On Jul 7, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote: I'm just reading these and trying to learn but... What about inxtalling x.org and not xfree86? Nothing wrong with that--in this case I didn't advocate it because the binary archives for xfree86 are already present I have a question concerning binaries and Apt. How do I use apt to download binaries with a fast connection and then later install them into the proper directories? I'd like to download the bundle-kde binary For what OS?  There isn't one for Tiger. Do you mean the old clunky 3.1.4 for Panther? at my favorite coffee shop and then install the packages at home. I know that fink fetch 'foo' will download the source files but I'd rather not go through the agonizing compilation process so hence the binaries. Many thanks, Brian The apt-zip package is supposed to be able to do something like this.  Also, I believe you can just grab all of the .deb files from the fast-connection machine that you want, and copy them over to /sw/var/cache/apt/archives for the other machine--the elaborate "by-section" directory structure that fink uses for builds isn't really necessary for installation purposes.