[PD] Installing pd-extended in ubuntu on a computer with no internet connection

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Sun Nov 4 03:41:49 CET 2007


That's what I would do as well.

.hc

On Nov 3, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Kevin McCoy wrote:

> This is cheating but Debian has a web repository at http:// 
> packages.debian.org where you can download packages for different  
> architectures and search, etc.  Find out what packages Pd-extended  
> depends on, download the ppc .deb files from the debian server, pop  
> them on a flash drive and drop them on your net-less ppc at home  
> and then install them first with
>
> sudo dpkg -i whatever.deb
>
> Then install the pd-extended deb package using the same command.
>
> That's what I would do - but it's not very elegant and maybe  
> someone has a better idea.
> Kevin
>
> On 11/3/07, David NG McCallum <d at mentalfloss.ca> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Maybe this is more of an ubuntu package question than a Pd  
> question, but...
>
> I've got an old iMac running xubuntu at home, except that home has no
> internet connection. When I tried installing the pd-extended package
> it went and tried to download the depends, which of course it
> couldn't, because it has no internet connection.
>
> Is there a complete meta-package of Pd-extended and all the depends
> that I could just plop onto this machine? Is it possible to make one
> (I don't have access to another PPC-ubuntu machine with a net
> connection to do this, it would have to be either an intel-ubuntu or
> OS X machine doing the work).
>
> Thanks!
> D
>
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