I have a direct download link address to a compressed zip file that contains an installer of program that I would like to install.  That being said I will only ask one question at a time...  How would I download and save it to disk ready for the next step of unzipping it in code?  Is there a specific module that deals with this?  Can it be done silently in the background without opening up a browser?  Any help would be very much appreciated  Thanks in advance
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I have a small utility that I use to download an MP3 file from a website on a schedule and then builds/updates a podcast XML file which I've added to iTunes.  The text processing that creates/updates the XML file is written in Python. However, I use wget inside a Windows .bat file to download the actual MP3 file. I would prefer to have the entire utility written in Python.  I struggled to find a way to actually download the file in Python, thus why I resorted to using wget.  So, how do I download the file using Python?
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I have looked at several pages and still am not getting clear instructions on how to download and install a .deb file. Specifically I would like to download this one:   How can I do this?
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I have a friend who has got a computer that is not connected to the Internet. Is there any way to install software offline easily?
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I have to download a file from this . The file download is a zip file which I will have to unzip in the current folder.  Normally, I would download it first, then run the unzip command.  $ wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=11834 -O temp.zip $ unzip temp.zip   But in this way, I need to execute two commands, wait for the completion of first one to execute the next one, also, I must know the name of the file temp.zip to give it to unzip.  Is it possible to redirect output of wget to unzip? Something like  $ unzip &lt; `wget http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=11834`   But it didn't work.      bash: wget   http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=11834   -O temp.zip: ambiguous redirect   Also, wget got executed twice, and downloaded the file twice.
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Depending on how a zip file is created, sometimes it will extract all of the files directly, and sometimes it will extract the files into a subdirectory.  If the latter is true, how can I force the unzip command to "ignore" that first level directory?  Example:  cd /tmp wget http://omeka.org/files/omeka-1.5.1.zip mkdir omeka unzip omeka-1.5.1.zip -d omeka/ cd omeka/ ll   What I'm getting is /tmp/omeka/omeka-1.5.1/:   total 12 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2012-05-08 18:44 ./ drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 2012-05-08 18:44 ../ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2012-04-20 14:54 omeka-1.5.1/   What I want is of the files extracted to /tmp/omeka/, (one level up and no version number included in the directory structure)  /tmp/omeka/(files)   I know I can use the -j option to "junk paths" but I want to keep the subdirectory structure, just not the top level directory structure. How can I do this?
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How do I remove a program that I have compiled from source using the ./configure; make; make install method?  Does it matter whether I have kept the original directory that the source was stored in or not?
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When you share a Zip file in Google Drive, you land on a page to view all the files inside the zip file and to download the entire file the user has to click File → Download. I've noticed a lot of users don't get this so I actually have to tell them to click File → Download when all I really want to do is give them a link to directly download the file.
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This is, how I download various master branches from GitHub, and I aim to have a prettier script (and maybe more reliable?).  wget -P ~/ https://github.com/user/repository/archive/master.zip unzip ~/master.zip mv ~/*-master ~/dir-name   Can this be shorten to one line somehow, maybe with tar and pipe?  Please address issues of downloading directly to the home directory ~/ and having a certain name for the directory (mv really needed?).
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I want to see all URLs that for packages that would be downloaded for apt install &lt;pkg&gt; without actually installing the package.  Normally, the URLs can be extracted from the screen output after installing the package (as above).  An example of a URL I want to list:    Is it only possible to get such list of URLs beforehand by looking through all the apt's package source lists?
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The install instructions are:  $ python setup.py build $ sudo python setup.py install # or su first   This gives me an .egg file. How do I tell the install to dump the files as a normal, uncompressed library?  Thanks!
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Is there anyway to extract iso or convert it to zip, rar, or tar file? I have a big .iso file on my remote server and I just want a file from it, not all of that; unfortunately I do not have root access, so it's my problem.
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I'd like a program which could zip up all of my addons in firefox so i can just move it to a new computer and walah install the same extensions/addons with one click. i know this is already developed because i've used it before however i can't remember the name to it.  thanks for the help!
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Time and time again I see questions such as these:       And these are the types of solutions we're typically pushing:        Is this really the best we can do? Aren't there binary builds of GLIBC that we can simply unzip into a directory such as /opt/myglibc, and set the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or whatever and run whatever application we want, without issues?   An application, such as the newer builds of Chrome (28+) that appear to require GLIBC 2.14?  NOTE: This thread titled:  on tecmint.com is what ultimately got me thinking about this.  References
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I am continuously trying to install FSPY, but according to the instructions on the Github, it is clearly mentioned that not to unzip it.  I tried it to import it as File&gt;Import&gt;fspy, but there is no option for FSPY... I also tried to install the zip file from Blender(Install Addon)   Then how can I install it? Any advice will be really appreciated!
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I thought I heard that  was able to do this, but I never figured it out.  Has anyone successfully done this?  Can I see your setup.py file, and what command line options you used?  Basically I'm thinking of it giving me a single executable file that does something like unzips itself to maybe /temp and runs.
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Is there a way to zip all files in a given directory with the zip command? I've heard of using *.*, but I want it to work for extensionless files, too.
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A common scenario is having a zip file in a directory with other work:  me@work ~/my_working_folder $ ls downloaded.zip  workfile1  workfile2  workfile3   I want to unzip downloaded.zip, but I don't know if it will make a mess or if it nicely creates its own directory.  My ongoing workaround is to create a temporary folder and unzip it there:  me@work ~/my_working_folder $ mkdir temp &amp;&amp; cp downloaded.zip temp &amp;&amp; cd temp me@work ~/my_working_folder/temp $ ls downloaded.zip me@work ~/my_working_folder/temp $ unzip downloaded.zip  Archive:  downloaded.zip    creating: nice_folder/   This prevents my_working_folder from being populated with lots of zip file contents.  My question is: Is there a better way to determine if a zip file contains only one folder before unzipping?