On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:51 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxx> wrote: > The following is for informational purposes only. You should never ever > download debs directly -- either install them with the application > installer, or use sudo apt-get install from a terminal. Installing debs > directly is the "use a bigger hammer" approach to replacing a light > bulb -- if you screw up, it's your own fault. > > > There are two repository layouts. Suppose you have > > deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras bora free non-free > > in the .install file. Start browsing at > > http://repository.maemo.org/extras/dists/bora/free/ (or non-free) > > Note the extra 'dists/' URL component. Then look inside binary-armel. > You'll find a 'Packages' file that mentions all installable packages and > their locations. Sometimes the packages live there, and sometimes > they live in a pool. The package URLs are relative to the initial URL, > so in this particular instance, when Packages says > > Filename: pool/bora/free/p/pybluez/python2.5-bluez_0.9.1-1osso2_i386.deb > > you'd have to go to > > http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/bora/free/p/pybluez/python2.5-bluez_0.9.1-1osso2_i386.deb > > to get the deb. > > The other repository format is simpler: > > deb http://aeracode.org/maemo/2006 ./ > > Just go to http://aeracode.org/maemo/2006 and you'll find the Packages > file (and most likely the debs) there. If it had said > > deb http://aeracode.org/maemo/2006 subdir/ > > you'd have to look in http://aeracode.org/maemo/2006/subdir. > > Marius Gedminas > -- This is great information for future reference, specific to Maemo. However, I was thinking there was a generic linux command, and finally realized that it was probably an apt-get option and decided to RTFM. The command I was looking for was apt-get --download-only install foo or apt-get -d install foo unfortunately, this gives me an odd dependency error (hildon-libs0) and refuses to do the download. Doing it your way gets me the .deb I want, but that dependency is still in the way. > Microsoft is not the answer. > Microsoft is the question. > "No" is the answer. > ROTFLMAO!!!!! I've seen a different version of this, but I really like yours. :-) _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
