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Topic: GNU Make apt-get, prob with coreutils(fileutils)

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Grim

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Posted: April 04 2004,10:57

Okay. primarily my little string of commands was for "install to HD users". I didn't really think LiveCD users would want/need the "real deal Holyfield" version of tar. You people must have incredible uptimes because there is no way in hell I would go through that much shit every time I booted from the CD.

The "-t " option specifies the number of retries. Specify 0 or inf for infinite retrying. The default is 20 times, with the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" (404), which are not retried. I'll have to check, but I'm pretty sure that the wget on the CD is a symlink to busybox, and while busybox does provide a boatload-full of apps, it doesn't provide all the features of the full apps (or the full apps would just go away).

The "-c" option is the "no-clobber" option. Basically, it just tells wget to pick up where it left off if the download fails. You don't really need either option. I just got so used to using both, back in my dial-up days, that it sorta stuck.

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Tomo

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Posted: April 05 2004,11:38

Quote (Grim @ April 02 2004,20:57)

Just to get you started, open a terminal and do the following:

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sudo su <press return here> wget -c http://grimthing.com/downloads/tar; rm /bin/tar; mv tar /bin

String updated in response to following posts. The above should work now as advertised
You should be able to copy-n-paste the above line into a terminal, press retun and watch the magic unfold.

You should always be wary of executing scripts or programs from unknown sources Having said that, this version of tar is from my own system and it's hosted at my website, so it should be safe.

If this continues to be a problem, maybe John could get it added to the mirror at ibiblio (hint, hint).

Thanks Grim

this is what i done as the .gz file wouldnt work

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sudo su
wget -c http://grimthing.com/downloads/tar
rm /bin/tar
mv tar /bin
cd /bin
chmod 755 tar
apt-get -f install

Job done

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY

dslfool

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Posted: April 05 2004,15:31

Thanks again, Grim. I'm creeping along toward having packages and all necessary utilities needed to restore them backed up to a USB flash drive so I can have my "run DSL live from CD" cake and eat it too with extra apps installed. Wacky, I know, but if it's fun to run a full-featured GUI from a 50MB card, it's even more so to do it from a 50MB card and cig-lighter-sized stick in RAM on a diskless workstation without net access and still have GIMP and lxdoom. :laugh:

Anyway, many, many thanks for the help.

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