11-26-2011
Non Internet connected distribution
Hi all
I've been a Debian user since solidly since about 1997 so I'm fairly experienced Linux user as a whole but unfortunately the monoculture has hit be hard recently. I'm working off a Laptop a lot of the time which spends up to 2-4 weeks without an Internet connection. A few weeks ago it blew up with no Internet access possible for about a week leaving me SOL. I had a Debian usb stick which I can boot off but the basic system is pretty useless without my usual toolset such as texlive, valgrind, gcc etc.
I decided to keep a set of Debian DVDs floating around with me all the time in case of such a thing happening in the future. Unfortunately I don't like the idea of downloading and then having to shift 8 (!) DVDs around and any update DVDs that are released at each version checkpoint.
Time to change!
So the question is: are there any compact distributions which I can bring a decent desktop environment with development tools and texlive up on which don't require me to carry so much crap around and don't require an Internet connection?
A couple of DVDs are fine. Just not 8!
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plucker-prc-install
plucker-prc-install(1) General Commands Manual plucker-prc-install(1)
NAME
plucker-prc-install - fetch and install Plucker viewer application on a Palm pilot
SYNOPSIS
plucker-prc-install [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the plucker-prc-install command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because this
program was created for the Debian package.
plucker-prc-install is a program that fetches and installs the Plucker viewer application.
The program uses wget to get the .tar.bz2 archive from the Web. You need to be connected to the Internet and have wget working correctly in
order to use this program. You may have to configure the environment variable http_proxy. You can take a look at the lynx command manpage
to get information about http_proxy.
The program tries to use the correct language version of the viewer according to the environment variable LANG.
The program then uses either gpilot-install-file or pilot-xfer to transfer the three .prc files to the Palm pilot.
With pilot-link 0.12.x it is mandatory to provide a port to use. plucker-prc-install first use the value of the PILOTPORT environment
variable. If PILOTPORT is not defined it uses /dev/pilot. If the file /dev/pilot does not exist it uses usb:.
OPTIONS
This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included
below.
--nohires
installs the low-resolution version of the Plucker viewer. If you are using a Palm with a 160x160 screen (Palm m500-series and ear-
lier) you can save approximately 90 KB by installing the low-resolution version of the viewer. Note that the hires version will
still work on older Palms, but will just take up unnecessary space.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
SEE ALSO
pilot-xfer(1), wget(1), gpilot-install-file(1), lynx(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ludovic Rousseau <rousseau@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
August 22, 2005 plucker-prc-install(1)