J_K9 @ Linux

HyperGet 0.1 Released!

It is with great pleasure that I announce the 0.1 release of HyperGet. This is a stable release with limited functionality: it allows users to download packages to be installed on an offline Debian-based computer on an internet-enabled computer using just the Synaptic Package Manager and HyperGet.

This release is a milestone for the HyperGet Development Team, despite being the first. Since the project’s conception over one and a half years ago, HyperGet has been through much trouble - developers disappearing (resulting in the project’s hibernation for more than 10 months), questionable programming implementations and more. However, HyperGet 0.1 has finally been released and may it be one of many! Go grab your share of the pie here.

There are plans to implement features such as updating the offline system using HyperGet through collaboration with the Synaptic team in the near future, so that you can both update your system and install new software using this mechanism. For now, enjoy the ability to install new software easily on offline Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu and MEPIS)! A video tutorial is on its way (as well as text tutorials for those on 56K), which will hopefully be followed soon after by other non-HyperGet tutorials on this blog!

Edit: The text and video tutorials, as promised: Using HyperGet

HyperGet Has Changed

The HyperGet project has changed. I haven’t had the time to update the official site yet, but I will as soon as I can.

The original design involved having two applications - one on the offline computer and another on the online one (as I described in an old post). But now, the design has changed radically. Having got in touch with Synaptic’s maintainer, Michael Vogt, we decided to work together to produce a more efficient and smaller HyperGet.

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I’m Exhausted…

Today, I’ve:

• Installed a new theme (do you like it?);
• Added the contact form on the page “main RSS feed and comments RSS feed over to FeedBurner;
• Configured my blog on BlogTopSites;
• Added my blog to Blog Explosion;
• Added Gravatar support;
• Changed the theme’s header image (& commented out the text on top of it), added custom<h4> and <h5> tags to the CSS stylesheet, added the Blogroll & gave a couple of finishing touches to the ‘Linux Business Case’ article;
• Added some new software to my gran’s Ubuntu Breezy laptop, and made sure it was all up to date;
• Discussed the HyperGet application with signifer123.

Feuf! Wow, that’s quite a lot for one day… Heh! Well, I’m already collapsing over my computer, so I’m going to sleep. Over & out.

Ubuntu Tutorial

I’ve found an excellent Ubuntu tutorial while browsing the web. It’s called Ubuntu Linux for Novices and is written by Paul Stamatiou. It is very easy to understand, and will prove highly useful for users new to Linux.

I’m still looking for some C/GTK+ developers to work on HyperGet, so please let me know if you would like to join the project!

What is HyperGet?!

Here is a simplified explanation of why hyper-get was started and what its purpose is. I think this will help clear up any misunderstandings which may have occured.

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Accepted!

HyperGet has officially been accepted by Sourceforge.net! I’ll add the index page to HyperGet (on SF.net) tomorrow, and I’ve already created the HyperGet forums over here for discussion of the project and communication between developers and end users alike. See the ‘Forums’ link above for details.

Submitted!

I’ve submitted the project to Sourceforge! Now all I have to do is sit tight and wait for their reply….which definitely won’t be arriving before Monday.

Please view the rest of this post if you are interested in what I submitted.

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