2 ideas come to mind. 1 send me the list of aps you want and ill extract then zip am splattered them to an ftp. 2 use wine to unpack the exe then move them. On Apr 9, 2011 12:23 AM, "der.hans" wrote: > moin moin, > > Life would be grand if I could have at least GIMP for m$ and mac running > off a USB drive for Monday morning :). > > I need to set up a PortableApps drive for someone. It looks like it wants > to install via an exe, so needs m$ to set up. Is that true? If so, can > someone help me with that at the meeting on Thursday? > > http://portableapps.com/download > > That lists all of the software installed by default? I want to make sure > no freeware sneaks in. > > After the main install new packages can be installed by hand? > > Need to be running windows in order to install them? > > I like that 2.0 will support package updates. Seems so 1997, but glad it's > finally happening :). > > Any of this available via torrent, so that I can help defray bandwidth > costs for them? > > I'd like the same drive to also have an Ubuntu install. I believe m$ will > completely ignore the ext? partitions that will hold the Ubuntu install > and pretend they don't exist. > > Is there now anything equivalent for mac? Last time I asked there was > something, but not quite as good. A quick search actually turns up quite a > few things, so I guess the question really is "Is there a portable apps > site/mechanism you would recommend?" :) > > http://osxportableapps.sourceforge.net/ > > Looks like that requires use of a mac to build it. Hrmph :(. > > Hmm. > > http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps > > http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps:gimp/ > > Can I just toss the dmg file on a FAT filesystem and let the mac do > whatever the mac do whatever it does with dmg files and maybe it'll > install GIMP on the thumb drive? Looks like I'll also need X11. > > Does XQuartz ( formerly XDarwin ) require admin to install? Can it also be > portable on the USB drive? > > http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.6.1 > > Hmm, needing to reinstall after updates from apple or needing to logout > and login after installing doesn't look promising. > > It would also be awesome if I could install and maintain these things via > GNU/Linux without needing the proprietary OSen. > > ciao, > > der.hans > -- > # http://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes/ > # ABLEconf - 2011Apr02 - Free Software for Free Enterprise > # Intelligence without compassion is a waste. -- der.hans > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss