Thread: Application installation advice needed
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TA-t3 is offline TA-t3
2007-10-01 , 10:29
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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Just out of interest, why is a repository compulsory? What's wrong with a direct download of an installation file?
The installation file is just a shorthand way of adding a repository (if it's not already there), doing an 'update' (i.e. downloading the list of applications from the repository), and activating the application manager to install the application you wanted.

Try downloading an installation link from your desktop browser, then look at it with a text editor or something. It's basically just a repository URL.
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