On Friday 25 April 2025 14:50:22 William Morder wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2025 14:07:15 Dan Youngquist via tde-users wrote:
On 4/25/25 1:37 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
It would be nice if developers got together somewhere and brought back aptoncd, a fork of it, or another tool that does more or less the same thing.
https://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/index.html
I've never used it, but it looks like it can easily grab an entire repository.
Cool. I didn't find it in the usual places, but I didn't think to look on SourceForge ... although I have got a lot of other packages from there over the years.
Thanks.
Bill
P.S. Update on that link. The sourceforge download link is dead, although I did find an archived version of the same, to wit: https://web.archive.org/web/20240322040655/https://downloads.sourceforge.net... Likewise, there is an archived version of the source: https://web.archive.org/web/20240322040658/https://downloads.sourceforge.net...
I suspect that this package may be too old to run on currently-supported Devuan or Debian-type systems. (It's supposed to run on the 'Buntus, as well, hence the "all" in the package name.) It requires dependencies from systems at least as old as the Debian/Devuan Jessie releases, or its equivalent in Ubuntu. It may be possible to get it running by compiling from source.
Can't find it anywhere in Debian, not even in archived packages, but maybe I didn't search hard enough. However, it does still exist in Devuan's archives: https://packages.debian.org/index https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/policy-query.html https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/package-query.html?c=package&q=aptonc... http://archive.devuan.org/merged/pool/DEBIAN/main/a/aptoncd/aptoncd_0.1.98+b...
Like I said, this is a very handy tool. It would be nice if somebody out there with the expertise could fork it. It may be that a Slackware user can get it working, though, so this may be relevant to some readers.
Bill