Synaptic without broadband Internet

Duncan Lithgow duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Tue Feb 14 21:38:52 GMT 2006


Toni Pizà wrote:
> IMHO, the best solution is to provide (to those users who only had a 
> Windows-based system with broadband, because unfortunatelly a lot of 
> people is in this situation) a program that works fine in Windows and 
> doesn't need a petition to the Synaptic or another GNU/Linux application.
Surely (as others have said) a server based solution would be best. 
Select the parameters, you get a list of files, download them. One is a 
bash script which installs the others.

Bit of work of course, but a real bonus for linux - the current software 
situation for non broadband linux users is pretty messy.

Duncan



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