Help with installing proggies

[Chris Mohler]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:16 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:
> How do i tell Aptitude to dl it to a flash drive? I can't figure it out.

>From 'man aptitude':

       download
           Downloads the file for the given package to the current directory.

           By default, the version which would be installed with “aptitude
           install” is downloaded. You can select a particular version of a
           package by appending =version to the package name; you can select
           the version from a particular archive by appending /archive to the
           package name.

So - for example: open a terminal, cd to Desktop, run 'aptitude
download', then drag the files over to the flash drive.   If you've
already run 'aptitude download' somewhere (like the home directory)
the files should be there.

Chris

PS - bottom-posting is appreciated on this list.