Question about transfering DVD Package files to /var...

[alfred]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com>
Reply-to: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community
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To: The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: Question about transfering DVD Package files to /var...
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:14:09 -0600

> "too long of a list" for what?  Is cp actually throwing an error that
> it can't handle such things?  Or are you just running out of disk space
> / patience?
>
>
>>The Disk is 320 Gigs, I'm using about 99 Gigs of it, and there are
> about 87 Gigs left for Ubuntu 9.04. So I'm not running out of Disk
> Space. cp is actually throwing out the error, even when there are just
> about 2000 Package Files to Copy or Move over, instead of 26,939, it
> says the list is too long.

Now that's darn interesting.  I had no idea cp had a file number
limit.  (ln and such are still better routes, but just for fun I'd
venture that the only way around this is a shell script to split it
into batches.  Fun!)

> A better way of doing this would be to actually set up a local mirror
> (with something like apt-mirror) or a caching proxy (like squid or
> apt-cacher-ng).
>
>
>>I've never made use of these Commands before, and My IP
> does not provide Proxy, if it is needed. I'm not even sure what these
> words mean??? Sounds like some sort of Marine Creature to me. :)

I'll see if I can clarify a little to get you started.  apt-mirror is
a (perl, iirc) script that allows you to download EVERYTHING in the
archives to your hard drive, but limited to a particular
release/architecture, unlike the standard rsync-based mirroring
scripts.  ie, you would get all of the files for i386 on karmic.
Useful if you have a fast connection some of the time, but not
normally, such as if you take your machine over to a friend's house to
set up the mirror, then use it while at home.  Using this, nothing is
fetched from the web when you actually install stuff, but it involves
downloading about 30GB of stuff to begin with (and needs updating
occasionally).  Caching is especially handy if you have multiple
computers sharing a connection - it lets you install a program on all
of them while only actually downloading it once.  This would be
something that you set up on one machine and use from all.  In
addition to both of those, had you kept the structure of the DVD
images rather than stripping out the .debs, you could use those as
normal apt sources in Synaptic without any odd fiddling stuff as well.

 - Tony Yarusso

had you kept the structure of the DVD
images rather than stripping out the .debs, you could use those as
normal apt sources in Synaptic without any odd fiddling stuff as well.

>This used to work in 5.10, but since then loading the "CDROMS" into
file sources list, with the names given to the discs, does not work,
when you go to install something. It will only refer to the install
disc (the first one in the set), and not the other ones. This is why I
started to experiment with clunky ways of using the discs. I'm not much
of a Script Writer, I think I might have written a play at one time. :)
So I don't know that much about what scripts are out there.

>There was Government funding for High Speed Internet here, and it was
supposed to get Installed South of the town, but it wound up getting
installed to the north of the town. There is the Rocket Stick, but at
229 Bucks plus infinity -1 per minute open ended, it's way too much for
me.

>In town there are 2 Hot-Spots for Wifi, but then I don't have that, and
I'd need a fork lift to get my Box there! :) Theres a Dish, if you want
to "DISH" Out-Giga bucks. There are a few services in town that offer High
Speed, but what you get coming out of the tap, is 5 baud, or slower. :(

>I have two machines here, but the other one gets used just for playing
games on, and is not tied to the Internet. I like Linux and use it
every day. Right now I don't even have M$Windows. 

>I'm about to make another Web Site, normally I use Serif Software for
that. It's a Code writing Program, You compose the pages with something
like a word processor. It writes the code. Does Linux have something
like this? I learnt HTML 2 then HTML 4 then it got Impossible to follow
up with as too much stuff got added to it. So I got the program to
write the code - HTML. Then I edit the code, and add too it other
features, like Agent Software, etc. Question is is there still an MS
AGENT Program that operates in Linux. Is there a Code Writing Program,
similar to SERIF Software. I've heard of Drupal, but don't know what it is?

>I was thinking of getting a PC fit 2 as I'm running as much as
possible on Alternative Energy, and 5 to 9 Watts of power instead of
250 Watts would make it runnable on the Sun. It's basically an Intel
Atom in a case the length of a set of car keys.  Very small!! Then run
that Dual Boot with M$ and Ubuntu. If M$ is I still need to use Serif.

Alfred!