Re: [Trinux-talk] getpkg Trinux Newbie

[Timothy B. <tb...@ar...>]

If I remember correctly, getpkg is a pretty straightforward shell script.

Have a look at the script and you can learn what you are doing wrong.

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Randy Walworth wrote:

> Thanks for the tip on the better servers, but I get
> the same results as before for both:
> 
> # getpkg bash http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/  (Waits for about 20 secs)
> #                                        (# sign returns)
> # ls                                     (shows no bash.tgz)
> # pkgadd bash
> bash.tgz not found!
> 
> What should I expect from getpkg?  If it finds the package
> I requested will it output anything to the screen while it is
> being downloaded?
> 
> I can ping http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/.
> nslookup resolves trinux.sf.net to 216.136.171.201
> snarf http://trinux.sf.net/pkg also seems to work fine.
> I assume that getpkg must do some sort of anonymous login.
> Could this be failing for some reason?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Randy
> 
> 
> 
> On Thursday 11 July 2002 08:31, Matthew Franz wrote:
> > Change  a:\tux\config\server on the boot floopy to
> > http://trinux.sf.net/pkg/
> >
> > or
> >
> > http://the.wiretapped.net/security/operating-systems/trinux/pkg/
> >
> > It is much faster and complete.
> >
> > - mdf
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 11:22:22PM -0700, Randy Walworth wrote:
> > > I just download the trinux-0.80rc2-net.img.  The network comes up
> > > successfully.  I can ping my gateway and I can ping
> > > www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg, but getpkg just seems
> > > to wait for awhile and then time out.  No package shows up anywhere.
> > > Here is the command
> > > I tried: getpkg angst http://www.io.com/~mdfranz/trinux/pkg/
> > >
> > > Not sure what to expect from getpkg?
> > >
> > > Would appreciate any ideas about what could be going wrong!
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Randy Walworth
> > > Seattle Indian Health Board
> > >
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