Synaptic without broadband Internet

[Michael Vogt]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 08:13:23PM +0100, Alban Crequy wrote:
[..]
> 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.

Thanks for this suggestions. Synaptic in dapper already has a feature
like this. It can generate download scripts for packages and import
the downloaded packages in a secure way (checking the md5sums of the
importet debs against the Packages list). 

The problem is that it currently only exports a script that uses wget
to fetch the packages [1]. I would be very interessted in suggestions
for a free (preferable as in speech) tool for windows (maybe with a
nice progressbar gui) that can be feed with a list of urls and that
downloads them into the current dir. This way the synaptic download
script could offer a choice to generate a script for windows users as
well.

Suggestions (via private mail, no need to send this to the list) are
very welcome (and examples what a windows script must look like
etc). I was in contact with the hyperget people asking for a java
based solution but haven't got code yet.

Cheers,
 Michael

[1] Apparently wget exists for window so it might even be enough.
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