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APTonCD will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your .deb packages located in one especific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet conection.
APTonCD Features
Create media with all your downloaded packages;
Create media with all packages from an especific repository
Download all official Ubuntu repositories (main,restricted,universe and multiverse) into removable media (CD/DVD);
Perform backup/restore all packages installed via apt;
Install, with the same CD/DVD, the same programs into several different machines;
Upgrade softwares/packages for several different machines, downloading them only one time;
Install APTonCD in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install aptoncd
or you can download .deb package from here once you have this you can install using the following command
sudo dpkg -i aptoncd_0.1beta-1_all.deb
Backup all your installed Packages
This will complete the installation and if you want to open the application go to System -> Administration -> AptonCD
Once it opens you should see the following screen
In the above screen you can see two tabs called create and restore first one is create tab now if you want to create a backup of your installed packaged you need to click on “Create AptonCD” now you should see the following screen reading all the available packages from /var/cache/apt/archives directory Once it read all the packages and you should see the following screen
Here you can add any other packages you want to add and click ok
Here you can see APTonCD creating the necessary CD/DVD image and saves it in the location you had chosen is in progress
Here you can see the .iso image stored successfully in the location i had chosen and you can use this image you can burn CD/DVD
Restore Packages
If you want to restore your backup you need to click on restore tab now you should see the following screen this is having three options as follows
Restore APTonCD
Restores all packages available from an APTonCD media to your computer
Restore .iso Image
Restores packages from an APTonCD .iso image previously generated and stored locally
Add CD/DVD
Add a CD or DVD created as a repository for apt-get,aptitude or synaptic
You can choose which one is suitable for you and restore all your packages
APTonCD Version Details
This tools is very useful if you want to install same packages in different machine you can save your bandwidth and if you have slow internet connection
December 1st, 2006 at 1:33 pm
Hi, I am a newbie here. I managed to create the iso image from one PC and burn it to cd. I have installed aptoncd script on other PC, I wanted to use the cd as a repository. So I choose the third option (add CD/DVD), from this point I dont’t know what to do next. Appreciate if any body can help me.
Regards,
January 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
I have 10 servers and potentially 40 PCs to install. Can I sue this software as a source for the applications and updates? Even with 6.10 there is still 50MB+ of updates and I want to minimise the downloads. If this won’t cache the updates can you suggest an alternative? I use IPCOP based Endian Firewall with HTTP caching turned on. Will the requests for updates result in local downloads from the cache?
January 28th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
Adding a CD creates an entry for Synaptic (apt-get etc) so they will use the CD as a source.
When you want to add a program, the installation tools will now use the CD (or prompt for it if you don’t have it in the drive.
To stop Synaptic going and looking for a non-existant internet connection,
Open System>Administration>Synaptic Package manager. Then select Settings>Repositories and on the Installation Media tab, uncheck all entries except the CD (or DVD) disks. (You should see the CD you added already checked).
February 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I have tried to install the package but,…this massage bellow appear :
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Selecting previously deselected package aptoncd.
(Reading database … 99016 files and directories currently installed.
)
Unpacking aptoncd (from aptoncd_0.1beta-1_all.deb) …
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptoncd:
aptoncd depends on apt-utils; however:
Package apt-utils is not installed.
aptoncd depends on synaptic; however:
Package synaptic is not installed.
aptoncd depends on python-apt; however:
Package python-apt is not installed.
aptoncd depends on python-glade2; however:
Package python-glade2 is not installed.
aptoncd depends on lsb-release; however:
Package lsb-release is not installed.
aptoncd depends on gksu; however:
Package gksu is not installed.
aptoncd depends on python-dbus; however:
Package python-dbus is not installed.
aptoncd depends on python-gtk2; however:
Package python-gtk2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing aptoncd (–install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
aptoncd
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Please help me
February 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
first thing make sure you have universe repositories are enable or not in /etc/apt/sources.list file and then try to run the following command
sudo apt-get -f install
Hope this helps