Hello, I'm a new Hurd user. I connect to my ISP with a ppp connection. Since ppp support doesn't appear to be available, I use the following method to install/update packages with apt-get. Maybe a better way exists. I didn't find anything in docs I read (but I didn't read everything :-).
I'm interested in any simpler method. This one requires to boot on Linux first and reboot again on the Hurd. First, I download packages in my user account on a Debian GNU/Linux install (see apt config below). Before running apt-get I copy the var/dpkg/status of the Hurd to my user account. In ~myself/hurd, I created the following dirs: ~/hurd/apt/state/lists ~/hurd/apt/state/lists/partial ~/hurd/apt/dpkg ~/hurd/apt/cache/archives ~/hurd/apt/cache/archives/partial I run apt-get with --config-file=/home/myself/hurd/apt/apt.conf and --download-only. Then I copy all .deb in the Hurd partition, reboot on the Hurd and install packages with dpkg. Laurent == apt.conf ================================================ Dir { Etc::SourceList "/home/myself/hurd/apt/sources.list"; Cache::archives "/home/myself/hurd/apt/cache/archives"; Cache "/home/myself/hurd/apt/cache"; State::Lists "/home/myself/hurd/apt/state/lists"; State::status "/home/myself/hurd/apt/dpkg/status"; }; APT { Architecture "hurd-i386"; }; ============================================================ == sources.list ============================================ deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian unstable main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main ============================================================