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Cool idea, doesn't seem to have caught on much.

Posted 01-20-2010 at 08:57 PM by clsgis

Download packages for offline installation In opensuse,ubuntu,debian,fe dora, mandriva

For debian users, Synaptic has pretty much the same capability built in. Select your desired packages in the normal way, but instead of clicking on "Apply", use File/Generate Package Download Script. It will prompt you for a name and generate a script that will download the requested packages, plus dependencies. You can copy this script to an internet-connected linux/unix box or anything that has a working wget command, or if necessary examine the script and download the files using some other tool, even a web browser.

Copy the downloaded packages back to the original system and install with dpkg, something like dpkg -iR /media/usbdisk, substituting the directory where you have copied the files for /media/usbdisk.

Posted 01-17-2010 at 05:51 PM by lwasserm lwasserm is offline

	Running Microsoft2007 Office in Linux I am using DELL laptop, 60 Gb HD, 1.66 GHz processor, 512 Mb of RAM. Office working fine for me. Working as speed as in windows. I got problem with equation editing in OpenOffice. So I Preffered this for a while.
	Posted 01-16-2010 at 06:07 PM by raju.mopidevi

	Running Microsoft2007 Office in Linux ewwwww, evil proprietary thingy, it doesn't even meant to exist, neither in unix nor in real!!! >:-[ i can only imagine it will work much worse than notepad++, which heavily loads system when you just type text there... and you have to wait for it to appear in window for 0.05-0.2 seconds. why would we possibly need that $%!& when we have OpenOffice?
	Posted 01-16-2010 at 11:22 AM by Web31337

Run Windows applications on Linux

hmm, that may be useful for those who really is bound to windows apps.

Posted 01-15-2010 at 08:36 PM by Web31337

Run Windows applications on Linux

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Originally Posted by Web31337

it's based on wine so if wine doesn't run some app this won't hack it too.

The Advantage of using Playonlinux over Wine is nothing but checking out dependencies. i.e. It helps like package manager. Playonlinux Automatically checks for the dependencies. helps to install easily.
I can simply say "It reduces complexity "

Posted 01-15-2010 at 08:25 PM by raju.mopidevi raju.mopidevi is offline

	Run Windows applications on Linux Well, actually, wine runs Half-Life 1 quite good: i often play it. Of course, it's not as fast as it was on windows, but still it is possible to play hard on DM over the net. I don't really get the point of this playonlinux application... it's based on wine so if wine doesn't run some app this won't hack it too.
	Posted 01-15-2010 at 08:18 PM by Web31337

	Playing video's in openSUSE Raju You are the man!! Thank you so much for your prompt and CORRECT reply. Mplayer/smplayer works like a charm after following your advice.
	Posted 12-07-2009 at 04:16 PM by rangerpresto Updated 12-20-2009 at 04:00 AM by raju.mopidevi

	Installing a software in LINUX Quote: Originally Posted by Web31337 and what about "emerge" of gentoo? =) thanks for suggestion, i have added gentoo also
	Posted 12-05-2009 at 08:11 PM by raju.mopidevi

Installing a software in LINUX

and what about "emerge" of gentoo? =)

Posted 12-05-2009 at 12:51 PM by Web31337

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