Minetest

[Callan Caustic]

I was just wondering whether the rasbian/debian version of minetest could be downloaded on windows, as my raspberry pi is in an area of my house lacking wifi, and it is in a desktop configuration and cannot be moved

thank you

[fruitoftheloom]

I was just wondering whether the rasbian/debian version of minetest could be downloaded on windows, as my raspberry pi is in an area of my house lacking wifi, and it is in a desktop configuration and cannot be moved

thank you

NO

That is way Minetest release different versions for differing Operating Systems / CPU Architecture:

https://www.minetest.net/downloads/

[rpdom]

I was just wondering whether the rasbian/debian version of minetest could be downloaded on windows, as my raspberry pi is in an area of my house lacking wifi, and it is in a desktop configuration and cannot be moved

thank you

NO

That is way Minetest release different versions for differing Operating Systems / CPU Architecture:

https://www.minetest.net/downloads/

I think OP was asking if it could be downloaded using Windows, then transferred to the Pi to run. Not running it on Windows.

If so, the answer is YES, but it could get a bit fiddly. Other dependencies would be needed and finding the right package files isn't so easy when the Pi can't see the internet.

[fruitoftheloom]

I was just wondering whether the rasbian/debian version of minetest could be downloaded on windows, as my raspberry pi is in an area of my house lacking wifi, and it is in a desktop configuration and cannot be moved

thank you

NO

That is way Minetest release different versions for differing Operating Systems / CPU Architecture:

https://www.minetest.net/downloads/

I think OP was asking if it could be downloaded using Windows, then transferred to the Pi to run. Not running it on Windows.

If so, the answer is YES, but it could get a bit fiddly. Other dependencies would be needed and finding the right package files isn't so easy when the Pi can't see the internet.

MineTest in the Raspbian repositories so all his RPi needs is an internet connection:

https://packages.debian.org/buster/minetest


Dependency hell if undertaken manual install from Source.....

[rpdom]

MineTest in the Raspbian repositories so all his RPi needs is an internet connection:

OP has already said that it doesn't have an internet connection, hence this post asking if it can be downloaded on Windows.

Dependency hell if undertaken manual install from Source.....

Actually, if the local Packages files were up to date (ok, can't do that without an internet connection ), it would be easy to identify all the dependencies and download them into a directory to install with dpkg (or possibly apt).
The --print-uris option to apt[-get] will give a listing of the URIs of the files that need downloading. But with the Packages lists out of date it will be pointing at wrong versions of files and also there may be others that need upgrading.

The apt-offline package is supposed to be able to manage this sort of thing for you.

[fruitoftheloom]

MineTest in the Raspbian repositories so all his RPi needs is an internet connection:

OP has already said that it doesn't have an internet connection, hence this post asking if it can be downloaded on Windows.

Dependency hell if undertaken manual install from Source.....

Actually, if the local Packages files were up to date (ok, can't do that without an internet connection ), it would be easy to identify all the dependencies and download them into a directory to install with dpkg (or possibly apt).
The --print-uris option to apt[-get] will give a listing of the URIs of the files that need downloading. But with the Packages lists out of date it will be pointing at wrong versions of files and also there may be others that need upgrading.

The apt-offline package is supposed to be able to manage this sort of thing for you.

Quite so, good luck to the OP hope he comes back with success and how-to