Re: Package Download Tool?

[John Summerfield]

c0ldfusi0n wrote:
Jon Dowland wrote:
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:04:02 -0400, c0ldfusi0n 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

APT (http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/apt)
Which is a frontend for DPKG
(http://packages.debian.org/{stable|testing|unstable}/base/dpkg)
  

Ok but how? How does apt or dpkg determine the architecture - and thus
how can it be instructed to use a different one?
 

APT uses a file named sources.list located in /etc/apt in which you 
tell Apt what type of Debian installation you're running (stable, 
testing or unstable) and where you also specify where to get the 
packages.

Jack said "cross architechture"
Think, "I want to get powerpc stuff while I'm running on Itanic hardware."
Jack
If your target's running Debian, then you can use apt-get there to list 
the packages you need:

apt-get -y --print-uris install lyx | awk '/http:/ {print "wget " $1}'
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John
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