On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 06:26:23AM -0500, Gary Setter wrote: > I've installed the base Debian system as a dual with MS Windows. > I want to install X-Window from the Debian web site. The lab > where I'm 'working' has a DSL connection, however, I can only get > it to work with Windows. Currently, I'm downloading files via > IE to the Dos partition, rebooting to Linux and finishing the > install there. For small stuff, I can tolerate this. For > X-window, I need to do something better. > > I've been trying to setup a network connection on the Linux side > via pppoe, but I have no support here and it looks like a dead > end. > > I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I > could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local > mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux > this time the local mirror is > my source). > > Has this been done before? Are there binaries I can grab? Do you > have any helpful suggestions? If you're running Woody or Unstable, the easiest is the --print-uris option of apt-get. I use this for example:
$ apt-get install aspell --assume-yes --print-uris | sed s/\'//g | grep http | cut -f 1 -d " " This gives me a list like this: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/aspell_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aspell/libaspell8_0.32.6-3.4_i386.deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libltdl3_1.4b-2_i386.deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pspell/libpspell2_0.11.2-2.5_i386.deb > There is a script on vim.sf.net to convert this to GetRight whatever files. And you do get wget for windows. > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Danie Roux *shuffle* Adore Unix
