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Offline linus72

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Hello guys
meaning how do I install tce/tcz's if I only have microcore, no desktop
all command line?

can I somehow use apps browser or goota
manually use wget for each one or how?
thanks ;D

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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2009, 07:57:40 AM »
Use tce-wget

Examples:

tce-wget opera.tce

tce-wget opera.tcz
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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2009, 09:01:17 AM »
Thank you Roberts

it is as I thought, to be manually done-yes?

I am trying to setup a small microcore server, no x

Is there a way to make a non-X apps browser??

just a thought:)
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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2009, 04:08:46 AM »
Assuming the TC apps browser works similarly to the one in DSL, it uses a simple database.  If that's the case, a shell script could be made to parse the database (downloading/upgrading it with wget if necessary), and use dialog as an interface.

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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2009, 07:39:27 AM »
Assuming the TC apps browser works similarly to the one in DSL, it uses a simple database.  If that's the case, a shell script could be made to parse the database (downloading/upgrading it with wget if necessary), and use dialog as an interface.
Example; 'update -g'  uses the dialog box and wget without X, but loads the tce directory instead of the complete database.

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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2009, 08:42:19 AM »
Assuming the TC apps browser works similarly to the one in DSL, it uses a simple database.  If that's the case, a shell script could be made to parse the database (downloading/upgrading it with wget if necessary), and use dialog as an interface.

There is no database download as was deployed in DSL.
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Re: How to use Apps Browser from command line, no X, microcore??
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2009, 12:41:36 PM »
I suppose somebody could create one by downloading all the md5's.    

edit: I just did this with "update" by downloading md5's and then directing it to the md5 folder for viewing/selecting/installing.  

edit: updated "update" to include new install option (update -i {tce,tcz} )
« Last Edit: July 21, 2009, 05:01:49 PM by jpeters »