Hi :) it is possible to use a different machine, perhaps one at a CyberCafe or internet cafe to download stuff.
Synaptic makes it easier by allowing you to setup a script that can then be used on a Linux, Windows or Mac (or possibly even BSD) machine to do the downloading. In Synaptic choose the stuff you want to download. Instead of clicking "Apply" go to it's menus and click on File - "Save Markings" and save to usb-stick, rewritable cd or even just attach it to an email and email yourself. The script is quite tiny. A word of caution tho! When you double-click or run the script on a machine it downloads all the packages to the folder the script is in so DONT put the script on the machine's desktop! A nice temp folder on the desktop is much better ;) Also somewhere in synaptic it allows you to avoid clearing out your package download cache so that reinstalling is easier as suggested by Peter. I think the default is to keep packages for 30days or something but this may have been changed in the interests of slimming. Good luck and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Peter Hillier-Brook <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 8 February, 2011 20:46:17 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Using external addressbooks as a data source On 08/02/2011 17:38, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: [cut] > > Thanks for that - I thought they did. I'm running just over my > average daily bandwidth usage (I'm on a capped bandwidth broadband > package) so when I've got some slack back I'll try that. Just one > question - having installed LO from the ppa, how do I uninstall it? > It doesn't appear in the Ubuntu Software Centre, and I can't seem to > get the apt-get syntax right for uninstalling... My policy would be to use Synaptic and un-install completely everything with an LO ID and then use the debs (dpkg -iR ./DEBS from the installation directory). Regards Peter HB -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
