On Aug 18, 2008, at 4:47 PM, jmite wrote: > > I have two computers. One is running Debian Lenny, and is not > connected to > the internet. The other is running OSX 10.3, and has good internet > access. > > Installing packages on my debian computer is very difficult. I have > fink > installed on my mac. I would like to configure apt so that it will > download > the .deb files from the debian repository to a USB thumbdrive, which > I can > then use on my debian computer. However, I don't know how to do > this. I've > edited sources.list, and it is searching for the ppc darwin folder, > which > does not exist. I need the i386 lenny folder. How would I configure > apt-get > in fink to do this? > > Thanks! > --
I don't know if you can do it that way. I think the syntax used in the "deb" lines in sources.list buries a multitude of sins, such as the architecture and OS version. As an alternative that I've tried, you could try using the executables in the apt-zip package to generate a script to batch-download the .deb files you want to your thumbdrive. Synaptic also has a method to generate a download script. You'd just need to have wget installed on your Mac (as it's not installed by default) to do the downloading. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
