What happened to ANA is not apt-get, that was nice, but anyway, a commendable thought and a really useful program. If you ask me i think ATR or software dhukuti would be a good option.
Cheers On 3/31/08, manish modi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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] > > > -- Shishir Jha EPC 1970,GPO 8975, KTM,NEPAL --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
