Linux is a great operating system, or say brand name of operating system. But for poor countries where people can't usually afford to buy an operating system, and the cost of band-width is also high, it is more difficult to use linux based operating system. The reason is that to install every software available, you need internet. Well here is a solution to that.
All the temporary files needed to install a software are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives folder if you are using synaptic pacage manager for installation. with others i don't know. My be they store in this folder as well. So what you could do is collect a collection of archives files from your friends who already have installed the software and use the already downloaded files to install in your system. In this way you could install large software with very little or sometimes even with no download at all. what you have to do is rename the original 'archives' folder in your system to 'archives_actual'. Then paste the 'archive' folder of your friend's computer in your directory where 'archives_actual' is. Then open the synaptic package manager and then search the program you want to install, mark it for installation, and then click apply. A screen will pop up and towards the end somewhere you will see the size of data needed to be downloaded for that program to install. If you checked the same data with your original archives file's name unchanged, and if the program is not already installed, the size of data needed to be downloaded will be much more.
(But i am not responsible if anything else happens or some problem occurs with this approach as i am not an expert in this field, I tried this way in Ubuntu11.04 and program was virtualbox and i only have to download 220kB where as the original program is more than 20MB to download)
Here is the steps you could follow to do the installation.
1. open the terminal(alt+ctrl+t)
2. type "gksudo nautilus"
3. provide your root password
4. a window with the root previlage will appear
5. type "ctrl+l" to go to the location bar and then type "/var/cache/apt" enter
6. select the 'archives' folder and press 'f2', rename it to 'archives_original'
7. copy-paste the other archives folder in that directory
8. open synaptic package manager and type the name of the program whose .bin file is present in that archives folder
9. install it
Do enjoy.........................
All the temporary files needed to install a software are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives folder if you are using synaptic pacage manager for installation. with others i don't know. My be they store in this folder as well. So what you could do is collect a collection of archives files from your friends who already have installed the software and use the already downloaded files to install in your system. In this way you could install large software with very little or sometimes even with no download at all. what you have to do is rename the original 'archives' folder in your system to 'archives_actual'. Then paste the 'archive' folder of your friend's computer in your directory where 'archives_actual' is. Then open the synaptic package manager and then search the program you want to install, mark it for installation, and then click apply. A screen will pop up and towards the end somewhere you will see the size of data needed to be downloaded for that program to install. If you checked the same data with your original archives file's name unchanged, and if the program is not already installed, the size of data needed to be downloaded will be much more.
(But i am not responsible if anything else happens or some problem occurs with this approach as i am not an expert in this field, I tried this way in Ubuntu11.04 and program was virtualbox and i only have to download 220kB where as the original program is more than 20MB to download)
Here is the steps you could follow to do the installation.
1. open the terminal(alt+ctrl+t)
2. type "gksudo nautilus"
3. provide your root password
4. a window with the root previlage will appear
5. type "ctrl+l" to go to the location bar and then type "/var/cache/apt" enter
6. select the 'archives' folder and press 'f2', rename it to 'archives_original'
7. copy-paste the other archives folder in that directory
8. open synaptic package manager and type the name of the program whose .bin file is present in that archives folder
9. install it
Do enjoy.........................
hmmmm.. so only a few KBs need to be downloaded
ReplyDeletei think this would help alot for both having less net speed (unlimit) and having fixed net (limit).
ReplyDeleteHope this would help lots of people like me................
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