James Wilkinson wrote:
>
> This one time, at band camp, Steven downing said:
>
> >Unfortunately I figure this would mean trolling through the debian archive =
> >directories to find all the dependencies needed for a package (source or =
> >binary) with a Windows ftp client and then finding the required number of =
> >floppies to transfer it all across. For things like task-xwindows-complete=
> > (or even core) this is pretty onerous, and I need to go to xfree4.0.1 for =
> >the new nvidia drivers, which is why I was looking for a cd, as well as =
> >the upgrade you mentioned.
>
> Try apt-zip
Hmmm... I haven't seen this before.
>From debian.org, about the apt-zip package:
"These scripts simplify the process of using dselect and apt on a
non-networked Debian box, using removable media like ZIP floppies.
One generates a `fetch' script (supporting backends such as wget and
lftp, in a modular, extensible way) to be run on a host with better
connectivity, check space constraints of your removable media, and then
install the package on your Debian box."
Looks like they're assuming that the connected box is *nix. Steven's is
'doze. Doh!
Matthew
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