Download w/Dillo
Forum: myDSL Extensions (deprecated)
Topic: Download w/Dillo
started by: raysr
Posted by raysr on Oct. 08 2004,21:24
How do I download Opera 6.1.2 from the repository with Dillo? I did it Moz1 from synaptic but never could uninstall mozilla so I reinstalled dsl and am starting over. Also how is "wget" used?
Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 08 2004,22:26
It's MUCH BETTER to use wget than the dillo download...Open your browser, and goto the file you want..
Rt. click on it, and select "copy link location" ..
open a shell..
type "wget" and a space ..
place your mouse cursor to the right side of the space, and
click the middle mouse button ( scroll wheel ) ,
or, with a 2 button mouse, click both buttons.
That should paste the link in front of the word "wget"
or you can simply type it out in the shell ..
" wget htp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/opera6.1.2.tar.gz "
Remember to compare your md5sum to the one in the repository after downloading.
"md5sum opera6.1.2.tar.gz"
73
ke4nt
Posted by raysr on Oct. 08 2004,23:50
Thanks so much. That worked great!
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 09 2004,06:36
of course, dillo already uses wget as its downloader. you can see it in action if you use an Xterm to start dillo. 
but like ke4nt1 said, not md5sum-ing your downloads is just begging for trouble.
-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed
Posted by WoofyDugfock on Oct. 09 2004,14:58
Interesting - I wondered if dillo used wget by default.What then is happening if I click on an ftp download link on a web page in dillo and get a 'format not supported' (or something) error message? This happened recently.
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Oct. 09 2004,16:37
yep, dillo doesnt sopport browsing a ftp site, you'll have to use either the AxyFTP app (gtk+, so you have a nice GUI) or the ftp command in an Xtermof course, DSL has many mirrors that use http for browsing the contents, so you could just do that too...
-J.P.
SaidinUnleashed