On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:18:53 +0000, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:12:59AM +0100, Andy wrote: >> On 04/06/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > There is a slight flaw with those options. They assume you are using > linux >> > on the internet connected computer (in your case the library). This is >> > unlikely to be the case, and as such you would need to look at the > file >> > generated (on your usb key) and manually grab the individual files > onto the >> > key. >>
<snip /> >> or another possibility would be to some how fetch a list of all >> installed packages put that on a USB stick an have an application that >> runs also on the stick and when hooked up to an Internet connected >> computer it downloads new package lists, finds out which packages to >> update and lets you chose new packages to install and grabs the files >> so they can be installed when you get back to your Linux PC. to be >> really clever it could install them for you when you get back. >> > > Remember the KISS principle and that this USB key is being put into > someone > elses computer - in this case the library. You cannot assume that you can > run applications from or install applications from the USB key. > > Maybe the wget script could be translated into an html page which the user > just clicks the files to get them. One of the things that I do like about MS is the fact that just about any PC auto-runs removable media by default. Granted this slows you down a bit if the USB drives are disabled, however a small piece of VBScript set to autorun on insertion of the pendrive that downloaded the debs to the USBStick then a bash script that installs them to the Linux PC would probably work. Fusing technology (and fairly basic technology at that!) has always been a favourite of mine... :) Cheers, Matt. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
