orangep
March 10th, 2013, 01:47 AM
Hi. I have no internet connection because of a major disagreement with the dishonest phone company called Qwest.
So my current situatioin is that I use the free wifi at the library. That leaves me with one difficult problem: I have 64-bit AMD machines
at home, and carry a 32-bit laptop to the library. Updating the laptop is no problem.
But manually downloading new software for the 64-bit machines is a nightmare because every package that I download manually
needs three more supporting packages and libraries, each of which needs more packages, which need more...
You know, it goes on forever.
A program like dselect solves the problem nicely. It resolves all of the dependencies and fetches all needed supporting packages.
The gotcha is that, so far, it only works with the native 32-bit system in the laptop. It naturally downloads the correct 32-bit packages
for itself.
Is there some way to put an alternate package list (from the AMD 64-bit machines, like /var/cache/apt/* ) somewhere and convince dselect to look at that list and download 64-bit packages, so that I can use the laptop to download complete updates and clusters of packages for the 64-bit AMD machines at home?
Thank you.
So my current situatioin is that I use the free wifi at the library. That leaves me with one difficult problem: I have 64-bit AMD machines
at home, and carry a 32-bit laptop to the library. Updating the laptop is no problem.
But manually downloading new software for the 64-bit machines is a nightmare because every package that I download manually
needs three more supporting packages and libraries, each of which needs more packages, which need more...
You know, it goes on forever.
A program like dselect solves the problem nicely. It resolves all of the dependencies and fetches all needed supporting packages.
The gotcha is that, so far, it only works with the native 32-bit system in the laptop. It naturally downloads the correct 32-bit packages
for itself.
Is there some way to put an alternate package list (from the AMD 64-bit machines, like /var/cache/apt/* ) somewhere and convince dselect to look at that list and download 64-bit packages, so that I can use the laptop to download complete updates and clusters of packages for the 64-bit AMD machines at home?
Thank you.