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rob.rice

10-18-2012 06:30 PM

a question about multi lib

what would be the wget command be to download the multilib files needed for a full install of multilib ?
without downloading the whole website

my head starts to swim reading wget's man page long before I get it worked out

don't get me wrong I'm grateful to have the man page I just wish the most commonly used options came first

T3slider

10-18-2012 09:40 PM

I don't know how to do it with wget off-hand but if you're willing to use lftp, then the following should work:

Code:

$ lftp -c "open http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.0/ ; mget *"

If you want the compat32 packages as well then use this instead:

Code:

$ lftp -c "open http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.0/ ; mirror -i ."

kingbeowulf

10-19-2012 01:05 AM

I use wget for a number of tasks, but it was just easier to use lftp based on information from Alien Bob's wiki site:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# Grab multilib packages from Alien Bob site



VERSION=${VERSION:-14.0}

TOPDIR="/data/slackware"



echo "Syncing version multilib packages for '$VERSION' ..."



if [ ! -d ${TOPDIR}/multilib ]; then

  echo "Target directory ${TOPDIR}/multilib does not exist!"

  exit 1

fi



cd ${TOPDIR}/multilib

lftp -c "open http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/ ; mirror -e -n ${VERSION}"



echo ...done.

or "taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/..." as appropriate. I think "mirror -e -n" is better than "mirror -i" for this case.

dr.s	10-20-2012 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rob.rice (Post 4809504)

what would be the wget command be to download the multilib files needed for a full install of multilib ?
without downloading the whole website

The syntax below worked for me. It should download recursively, accepting (txz,txt,asc) extensions and GPG and README files, into a parent directory ("multilib") in the local directory. The -nH and cut-dirs will remove the host name and path (mirrors/people/...) otherwise you'll end up with a long local directory structure. You can tweak it to suit your needs.

Code:

wget -r -np -nH -Pmultilib --cut-dirs=5 -A txz,txt,asc,"GPG*","READM*" http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/people/alien/multilib/14.0/

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