Downloading LINUX Apps on a Windows Box

Get your self a small cheap Ethernet router, less then $100.00, and plug both machines into it. That way you can share your connection. This won't work if you use a dial-up connection from the PC. If that is the case, there are other ways to do it. Are you on dial-up?

I am using ADSL,a normal land line connection,The "Ethernet router"will cost me more in Namibia,computer parts or computer extras are expensive.If you get it for $100.00 then I will most probably get it for N$900.00!!!

Yes, for sure. Any LINUX application can be downloaded in a Windows computer to be transfered via USB flashdrive or even a CD/DVD media into a LINUX computer.

In fact, you can even download LINUX OS like Ubuntu and Fedora Core to Windows computer and create a CD/DVD copy for your installation of the OS into another computer.

THANX FOR THE HELP!!!I will go and have a look and see if I get the Apps to work on my LINUX box.

I have been doing exactly this for a couple of months. I run Ubuntu 7.10, and download both "tarball" applications and *.deb applications with a Windows machine, burn a CD, then load the applications from the CD. There are problems, however, associated with very complicated "depends" replationships- a package might not install because you don't have some other package installed, which won't install because you don't have some other package installed, and on and on. Eventually, most of the time, you can get everything sorted out, but occassionally one runs in to "circular" depends, in which case two applications demand that each be installed first. There is a command work-around for this. I have also run in to cases where the package manager complains that a package required for a new application is not loaded on the machine, yet turns around and tells me it is installed on the machine. Loading applications is one of the serious limitations of Ubuntu- I do not know if this is a problem with other Linux flavors...