Announcement We(me manish,jitendra,suraj) are working for the development of a program.
Actually one the common problem here in the Nepal is linux users face the difficulty to get the packages of any application with all its dependecies because they dont have internet on their PC. In the absence of packaging tool like apt and yum its really tough to get any packages into computer Its tedious if somebody opt for going cyber cafe or frens computer & download/copy the application along with its all dependencies and recursive dependencies too. Infact it has become very difficult for one to have the linux without internet. Apart from this updating the packages without internet is very difficult but with internet too its really difficult because hundreds of Mbs need to be downloaded so unless we have fast internet we enjoy the packages without update. So we guys trying to solve these problems Overview of our application We will have machine one like ATM We will have three outlets from machine 1. For usb(pen drive,flask disk) 2. For CD/DVD 3. One for mouse(there wont be keyboard) We will be maintaining the repository of the linux distribution which will be updated their repositories available(gutsy,fiesty,debian) & Free and open source softare for windows. User can search the packages he/she needs & our program will calculate all the dependencies(for linux),make repo of all the packages selected and allow them to copy it to usb disks(pen drives,flash disks) or cd/dvd. Now user can copy the repo in their hard disk & there will be install script which will modify sources.list file,so that the packages can easily be installed from synaptic/apt-get/aptitude whenever needed without internet. We had a dicussion on this last saturday with Subir dai,Basanta dai,Ankur,Jwalanta,Shishir,Rajeev,Bibek,Dhruba,Yogesh. We are yet to decide the name for this application We had few we want you to vote which one will be better 1.ATR (Any time repo) 2.Software Dhukuti 3.EPM Easy Package Manager 4.YAP Yet Another Packager 5.EPT easy package tool and if another any name you think is appropriate then you are free to suggest -- With Regards Manish Modi Pulchowk Campus,IOE [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
