Synaptic without broadband Internet

[Carlos Ribeiro]

On 2/14/06, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
>
> Op ma, 13-02-2006 te 21:28 +0100, schreef Wouter Stomp:
> > On 2/13/06, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
> >
> > > On my "dapper" system synaptic has 2 options in the File menu:
> > > - Generate package download script
> > > - Install downloaded packages
>
> > Not very useful if he is running windows at work, which is more likely
> > than linux.
>
> Save that script from Synaptic with a .bat extension, drop it in the
> same directory as a copy of wget.exe for Windows and it will Just
> Work™...   :-)
>

There's one thing missing: synaptic (or apt-get) will check the MD5
signatures of the downloaded files. Not a *big* problem but something to
look after anyway.

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Carlos Ribeiro
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