On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 02:25:51PM -0900, ejbjr wrote: > After installing packages I > don't really want on my internet machine, I click on the download link > and it *INSTALLS* the package I want to put on my audio machine at home > on my internet machine. YUCK. Debian's apt-get has a switch for the install command that tells it to download the .deb package but not to install it. Surely Mandrake's GUI installer is only a front end for a similar command line program that might have a similar switch? > My audio machine at home is not on the internet, and never will be due > to the presence of unreleased audio tracks - no network connection is > the most reliable firewall ever created. A separate firewall machine that you only connect when you want to download and install new software packages is comes a pretty close second :-) -- Anahata anahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+- http://www.treewind.co.uk Home: 01638 720444 Mob: 07976 263827
