[GLLUG] Ubuntu Packages

[Richard Houser]

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If you can find the appropriate mirror/burn script, this is entirely
possible to do with any old broadband connection.  Heck, that's less
than a week at 384kbps downstream (I pay $35/mo to Comcast for a
768kbps/384kbps connection).  There are plenty of people on this list
with 6Mbps+ downstream connections that could easily download this in a
fraction of a day.  Some of them might even have an Ubuntu mirror
available locally as well.

Marr wrote:
| On Saturday 19 January 2008 12:41am, Karl Schuttler wrote:
|> if you have a spare computer with hardware space, you could make your
|> own package server to stick in your home.
|
| Sounds interesting, thanks for the idea, Karl. But I think I found
something
| even better. See below.
|
| On Saturday 19 January 2008 12:09am, Chick Tower wrote:
|> One thing you could
|> try is to find a cheap (Craig's List?) network card for your laptop,
|> configure it, and take it to places that offer free WiFi.
|
| A good idea, indeed, Chick. I've used a local library's free WiFi in
the past,
| but it's very slow and only good for some of the things I need. (The
laptop
| already has built-in WiFi, modem, and Ethernet. Ironically, my almost
| 8-year-old laptop's built-in modem works _far_ better under Linux than
this
| not quite 1-year-old laptop.)
|
| But I think I've found the perfect solution:
|
|    http://on-disk.com/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/55/products_id/388
|
| This vendor was found by digging into the main Ubuntu site. That link
is to a
| 6-DVD set that costs $34.95 and contains all of the current Ubuntu 7.10
| repository. For me, that's the perfect alternative to lack of an in-home
| broadband connection. I can just pop in the appropriate DVD and install
| packages to my heart's content. :^)
|
| I'm just a bit mystified why the whole package management thing (which
has
| been around _long_ before Ubuntu ever arrived on the scene, obviously,
and
| long before most people had in-home broadband connections) doesn't
provide
| something to chase all the dependencies and automatically download a big
| tarball with everything ('*.deb') in one TGZ file. That would make
life so
| much simpler. All the pieces are there (i.e. the dependencies are all
| documented), so I'm stumped as to why the solution hasn't been provided
| already, long ago. Or maybe I'm just missing something obvious.
|
| Anyway, thanks for all the help and suggestions, guys -- much appreciated!
|
| Regards,
| Bill Marr
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