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Offline coreplayer2

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ftp for extension downloads
« on: July 25, 2011, 12:28:59 PM »
Sure would be great if the ftp address for downloading extensions manually was listed on the downloads page,  I realize the preferred method is the App-Browser by the omission of any download link on the main repository page, but there are times when it is desired to download extensions manually, which can only be accomplished from here

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/tcz/

Sure would help if this address was listed on the downloads page along with

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« Last Edit: July 25, 2011, 12:35:44 PM by coreplayer2 »

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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2011, 12:45:28 PM »
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:mirrors

not even the ftp mirrors take you to any easy link to download extension from..  Am not saying the link is not there, but if it is then it's must be deeply buried.  :(
« Last Edit: July 25, 2011, 12:51:50 PM by coreplayer2 »

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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2011, 06:32:22 PM »
Just change the http: to ftp: and look in the tcz directory.

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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 10:14:08 PM »
nice but you have to wonder if the link could have been in a more logical location??

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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 11:35:23 PM »
Downloads is at the top of the main page, and mirrors is the first wiki entry.
What more can we do to hide it?

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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #6 on: July 26, 2011, 12:34:18 AM »
lol  yes exactly  

On the other hand if the objective was to make it as easy to find then it for sure would be more intuitive placed with these links  
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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2011, 01:48:01 AM »
It's hidden on purpose, if you search you'll find posts with broken extensions by not getting the deps too.
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Re: ftp for extension downloads
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2011, 10:10:49 AM »
It's hidden on purpose, if you search you'll find posts with broken extensions by not getting the deps too.

??
imo, it seems a better to give a link to the ftp* AND have some text saying something like
 "* to use please understand, if  an_extension.tcz.dep file exist it contains a list of other .tcz extensions that an_extension.tcz depends upon to work! "

or more simply put
       better to inform users of core  , rather than hide info  links  ect 
 
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