[osgeo4w-dev] Download from mirror?

[andrea antonello]

Hi Matt, thanks for the istructions, I wrapped them up here:
http://jgrasstechtips.blogspot.com/2011/03/osgeo4w-for-impaired-networks.html

Hope that is ok with you and if you have comments, just shout.

Andrea



On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:25 PM, andrea antonello
<andrea.antonello at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> I was really hoping for this to work without dependencies. It needs
> python though, which I had installed, but not in my osgeo4w install.
> So even if the apt install via commandline is easy and works (tested,
> yeah!), one has to go through a customized install of python, which
> kind of defeats the purpose. Anyways I am sure many will be happy to
> install also by doing so and most probably many will have python
> installed, so I will wrap the instructions up and let others know.
> Thank you for the help!
>
> Andrea
>
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Matt Wilkie <matt.wilkie at gov.yk.ca> wrote:
>> It's just two files. Save
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/export/1170/trunk/apt/apt.py as
>> %OSGeo4w_root%\bin\apt.py (default is C:\OSGeo4W)
>>
>> Then create batch file %OSGeo4w_root%\bin\apt.bat with the following
>> content:
>>
>>   @python "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\apt.py" %*
>>
>> From there you can run something like the following from inside an osgeo4w
>> command shell:
>>
>>   apt --mirror=http://download_alternate.osgeo.org update
>>   :: or  apt --mirror=file:///path/to/package/mirror update
>>   apt available | more
>>   apt install gdal17 gdal17-python (etc...)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> matt wilkie
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Geomatics Analyst
>> Information Management and Technology
>> Yukon Department of Environment
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>> http://environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/geomatics/
>> --------------------------------------------
>>
>> On 28/03/2011 1:29 PM, andrea antonello wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>> that would be an great option. There is only one problem with it. It
>>> is not installed by default, right? So for example in my case I have
>>> no way to get the commandline installer without passing through the
>>> gui installer.
>>>
>>> Or is there a way for this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrea
>>
>