Re: [ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
Thanks Hardik. I will try this. Moz On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Hardik Dalwadi hardik.dalw...@ubuntu.comwrote: on Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:16 AM Moz said the following: Hello All, I recently installed Hardy 8.04.2 on four different machines and Xubuntu 8.04.1 on one machine. Luckily I have access to a broadband internet connection and can download updates and packages on those machines, however, two of the machines do not have access to broadband and I can never be able to finish updates in time. There are other issues of electricity availability and reliability of internet connection involved here. 1. How can I create a CD/DVD which will include all the packages I need. It is a pretty standard set of packages. Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp plugins, K3b, VLC, Mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, xvidcap, Blender, Thunderbird, Skype, Epiphany, Opera, Acroread, certain video editing packages, Vbox and so on. I do not mind if the packages are not updated for a year or so. Try Remastersys for Ubuntu [1]. [1] http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html 2. Those two machines which do not have access to broadband internet, how can I take updates to these machines from the ones that I update with broadband connections? Try apt-cacher [2] or apt-proxy [3] if you have network between those machines. or simple trick if you don't have network [4]. [2] http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy [4] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=129570 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
There are various solutions. 1. You can use aptoncd to create a CD of the packages installed on machine A (with internet access) and then use that CD on machine B (without internet access). 2. You can manually copy files from /var/lib/apt/lists and /var/cache/apt/archives from machine A to machine B and then simply run the apt-get install package commands on machine B. 3. If you are feeling brave enough, then you can try using apt-offline - https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~apt-offline/apt-offline/dev. It is a kind of service package creator for UBuntu. The way it works is, you create a profile of machine B using the tool, take that profile to machine A and retrive updated package lists as per this profile, select and download packages, create a service pack. Then you take the service pack to machine B and install it using the tool. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
Thanks Onkar, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.comwrote: There are various solutions. 1. You can use aptoncd to create a CD of the packages installed on machine A (with internet access) and then use that CD on machine B (without internet access). This is what I tried and had thought that this would solve my problem. However, packages like Inkscape, Scribus, Opera etc will not get copied for some reason. 2. You can manually copy files from /var/lib/apt/lists and /var/cache/apt/archives from machine A to machine B and then simply run the apt-get install package commands on machine B. I have not tried this but I can surely try this. 3. If you are feeling brave enough, then you can try using apt-offline - https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~apt-offline/apt-offline/dev. It is a kind of service package creator for UBuntu. The way it works is, you create a profile of machine B using the tool, take that profile to machine A and retrive updated package lists as per this profile, select and download packages, create a service pack. Then you take the service pack to machine B and install it using the tool. I will have to try this to learn. Moz -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
Hope this helps, http://ubuntu-in.info/wiki/index.php/Installing_Softwares_without_Internet_Connection_using_APTonCD Regards, Manish Sinha -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
[ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
Hello All, I recently installed Hardy 8.04.2 on four different machines and Xubuntu 8.04.1 on one machine. Luckily I have access to a broadband internet connection and can download updates and packages on those machines, however, two of the machines do not have access to broadband and I can never be able to finish updates in time. There are other issues of electricity availability and reliability of internet connection involved here. 1. How can I create a CD/DVD which will include all the packages I need. It is a pretty standard set of packages. Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp plugins, K3b, VLC, Mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, xvidcap, Blender, Thunderbird, Skype, Epiphany, Opera, Acroread, certain video editing packages, Vbox and so on. I do not mind if the packages are not updated for a year or so. 2. Those two machines which do not have access to broadband internet, how can I take updates to these machines from the ones that I update with broadband connections? Thanks in advance, Moz -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] installing all packages in one go
on Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:16 AM Moz said the following: Hello All, I recently installed Hardy 8.04.2 on four different machines and Xubuntu 8.04.1 on one machine. Luckily I have access to a broadband internet connection and can download updates and packages on those machines, however, two of the machines do not have access to broadband and I can never be able to finish updates in time. There are other issues of electricity availability and reliability of internet connection involved here. 1. How can I create a CD/DVD which will include all the packages I need. It is a pretty standard set of packages. Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp plugins, K3b, VLC, Mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, xvidcap, Blender, Thunderbird, Skype, Epiphany, Opera, Acroread, certain video editing packages, Vbox and so on. I do not mind if the packages are not updated for a year or so. Try Remastersys for Ubuntu [1]. [1] http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html 2. Those two machines which do not have access to broadband internet, how can I take updates to these machines from the ones that I update with broadband connections? Try apt-cacher [2] or apt-proxy [3] if you have network between those machines. or simple trick if you don't have network [4]. [2] http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy [4] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=129570 Thanks in advance, Moz -- Hardik Dalwadi signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
