Synaptic without broadband Internet

[Jan Claeys]

Op ma, 13-02-2006 te 20:13 +0100, schreef Alban Crequy:
> I would like a new feature in Synaptic: instead of downloading .deb
> files and installing the packages, I would like Synaptic to generate a
> list of URL to download. Then my friend would go to work and download
> these files, burn a CD and run again Synaptic. Synaptic would find the
> .deb files on the CD.
> 
> Is there an easy method (GUI) to do that in Ubuntu 5.10, or is it
> planned for dapper or dapper +1 ? 

On my "dapper" system synaptic has 2 options in the File menu:
- Generate package download script
- Install downloaded packages

>From the changelog, this seems to be added since version 0.57.7.

Sounds like that's what you're looking after?  :-)


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Jan Claeys