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OK, here's the deal. I'm dual booting Arch and Win2k on my Dell 600m laptop. The modem does work with the slmodem stuff and I can get it working; I've gotten it working in everything from Gentoo to Debian. The problem is I can't get the package. I've looked all over the wiki and here, and can't find a way to get a package with an external program, or from a seperate machine.
Previously, on Gentoo, I could do this with a pretend fetch and it would spit out the urls. A little sed magic and I had a nice list to pipe into wget on my 2k install. Is there a similar solution?
I have found the slmodem package page from the main arch site, but couldn't find a way to download the arch package from anywhere; I could only find the source. I wanted to keep this as an arch package, as I am new and have not learned the ins and outs of the ABS.
I'm a sole linux user for 3+ years (despite my dual-boot, college course needed software that only worked on win, and no wine) just to give you a basis of my knowledge.
Any guidence would be most appreciated. Thank you.
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From man pacman:
SYNC OPTIONS
...
-p, --print-uris
Print out URIs for each package that will be installed, includ-
ing any dependencies that have yet to be installed. These can
be piped to a file and downloaded at a later time, using a pro-
gram like wget.
Basically, pacman -Sp pkgname will give you the URL.
Alternatively, you can browse to ftp://www.archlinux.org and search the package tree there for the packages you need.
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Thanks, don't know how I missed it, I read the man page like 4 times.
anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.
/jhs
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anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.
Glad to be of assistance; I've had times where I've reviewed something a few times and completely missed an important section somehow; I know the feeling.
Welcome to Arch!
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hugin wrote:anyhow, thanks for the info, and the friendly response.
Glad to be of assistance; I've had times where I've reviewed something a few times and completely missed an important section somehow; I know the feeling.
Welcome to Arch!
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