Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp

From	Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp
Date	2011-05-22 19:02 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<irbfii$u6d$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On Sunday 22 May 2011 18:42 in comp.os.linux.misc, somebody identifying
as pH wrote...

> I just installed Mint 10.0 on another hard drive.
> 
> I could not seem to find any modem items installed for my dial-up
> connection.
> 
> It wanted to download some 60MB to get kppp. via apt-get install kppp.
> 
> The problem, without my dial-up connection I can't get the items
> required to get a dialup connection.
> 
> The Question:
> Is there a place I can order repository CD/DVD's with my items of
> interest?

This I cannot tell you - I've briefly skimmed cheapbytes.com but they
don't seem to be offering Mint - but read farther down...

> To begin with I would like to add a modem handler (does not have to be
> kppp if there's a better one out there) and games...especially shi-
> shen-sho, tux racer, etc.
> 
> I'm back on my old Madrake install to be able to connect and ask this
> question.

Use your Mandrake to connect to one of the many [*] mirrors in the USA -
which I presume you are posting from - and download the packages of
interest to you to some location on your hard drive where you can
access them from within Mint, and then boot into Mint and use your
package manager to install those packages into your system.  That
should give you at least a working dial-up connection in Mint, enough
to download other stuff.


[*] If there is no specific Mint mirror, then you might try a Debian or
    Ubuntu mirror instead.  Those packages /should/ work.



-- 
*Aragorn*
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

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mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp pH <pureheart@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-22 09:42 -0700
  Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> - 2011-05-22 19:02 +0200
    Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp pH <pureheart@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-22 10:27 -0700
    Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2011-05-22 12:42 -0500
      Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-22 20:57 +0100
      Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp pH <pureheart@pacbell.net> - 2011-05-23 10:45 -0700
  Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp Dave U. Random <anonymous@anonymitaet-im-inter.net> - 2011-05-22 23:51 +0200
  Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> - 2011-05-25 21:11 -0700
  Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> - 2011-05-26 11:30 -0700
  Re: mint 10.0 chicken & egg problem getting kppp JeffM <jeffm_@email.com> - 2011-05-27 16:16 -0700

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