On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:00:19AM -0500, Tam Than Ma wrote > > As of right now, I have decided to give Sawmill a try since many people > recommended it. But my Debian Box doesn't have internet access so I can't > download or use apt-get to get sawmill online. So how do I go about doing > this? Can I download the Sawmill package and all its dependant packages on > floopies from my brother's machine(which uses window 98 :( )and use apt-get > to install those packages from floopies on my Debian box?. I wonder if this > is a good idea because my brother's box is a win98 machine and don't know if > a apt-get would recognize the files(maybe it could, I don't know, I am kinda > new to linux). Help me out one more time here guys...And thanx for all your > recommendations, I appreciate it. > > > Tam >
That depends on what you mean by "All its dependencies". The current sawmill package in potato comprises sawmill, rep, rep-gtk and librep2, which collectively should *easily* fit onto a single floppy. There are many other, more common dependencies, which you can probably satisfy if you have a working Debian system: libgtk, libgnorba, zlib1g, libjpeg62, etc. Since you'd be carrying just a few packages from one machine to another I'd use dpkg rather than apt-get: dpkg -i sawmill*.deb rep*.deb librep2*.deb or something like that. Saves having to fetch or build Packages files for a non-networked machine. If you're not running potato, you can also build it from source: the source archive is under 400Kb. John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
