[CoLoCo] (Fwd) Proposal: Removal of the WinFOSS collection

[Kevin Fries]

On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 07:57 -0700, Chomafin wrote:
> The GUI is just the web page..  
> But its basically all done from CLI, unless there is a 3rd party
> win-get gui.. For the "GUI" version, you go and get an account on the
> win-get website, then Log in.  Click on the App List, and then hit the
> blue plus next to the apps you want installed. This will just add them
> to your profile.  So then from there go and edit your config file (it
> will auto gen if you do not have one in the same folder as
> wget.exe/win-get.exe) and add your user/pwd and uncomment the fields.
> At that point, go to the CLI and type win-get restore. and it will
> download all the apps you've listed on your online profile.
> 
> I've not actually used it to install anything yet though.

OK, that seems like a lot.  I have just used it to install single
packages (tell me if this sounds somewhat familiar, lol)

c:\> win-get install firefox

just like Ubuntu... it downloads and installs.

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Kevin Fries
Senior Linux Engineer
Computer and Communications Technology, Inc
A Division of Japan Communications Inc.