On Sat, 2001-09-08 at 16:55, Bjoern Berg wrote: > On Samstag, 8. September 2001 16:47 Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 03:59:09PM +0200, Bjoern Berg wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I was looking for updates on the Debian-Distribution. Especially I'm > > > looking for newer versions of Xfree and PPP. Where can I found > > > ready-to-use-compiled Debian-Packages? > > > In sid I only found i386 packages and not for powerpc. The packages > > > should be able to download without apt. > > > > XFree 4.1.0-5 was just uploaded to sid yesterday. before that we had > > 4.1.0-4, i don't know why you think this is so old. > > No, that's not what I said. I'm looking for an URL where I found actual > debian-packages. I don't want to download with apt, because at the moment it > is not possible for me!
Do yourself a favour and don't download and install packages manually. APT does a much better job at that than anyone can. If you can't use it directly, look at something like apt-zip. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
