Re: [Evolution] Downloading on another machine?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I am thinking of upgrading to Evolution 1.2.4, and to a Ximian build at
> that.
>
> But I don't want to  Red Carpet at this place, because the traffic is
> expensive. I'd also like to be able to install Evolution on other
> machines whish may only have dialup Internet access.
>
> I can get access to a machine with free traffic. But it is running
> Windows.
>
> So, it is possible to somehow download Evolution (and perhaps Red
> Carpet?) on another machine, running Windows, to burn a CD, and then to
> install it (using Red Carpet&) from that CD?

I'm not sure, if it works, but you can try it.

Download the entire Evolution directory for you system from the ximian
ftp servers. Carry them to your machine.

Red Carpet has two options, that may do it:

Settings / Preferences / Cache / Path
If the packages to install are in there, Red Carpet should not download
them again.

File / Install local packages
That lets you choose, which files to install.


In both cases it may want to contact the server for latest index,
though.

To avoid that, you can try rpm for upgrading of that packages. It will
refuse to do so, unless all dependencies are resolved of course...

HTH, good luck...

...guenther


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