Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Ramnarayan.K]

Am trying out the Pinguy script that helps make a complete iso from the
(one) installed system.

Hope to complete one machine and one new iso today - will let you know how
this goes

suspect that some things will still need to be done by hand.

regards
ram

On 20 May 2016 at 13:36, Ramnarayan.K  wrote:

> So found these solutions
>
> apt-offline
>
> this guide to using a script - as suggested earlier
>
> Download updates away from home, install at home.
> 
> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42=47129?f=42=47129#p271839
>
> am going to give the UCK one more try - that seems the easiert if all the
> stuff can be on one ISO
>
> will try the ubuntu-customs-builder as well
>
> will let you know when i complete one proper install or if i get into
> trouble
>
>
> thanks
> ram
>
>
>
>
> On 20 May 2016 at 06:50, James Sebastian 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Ram,
>>
>> One way to deal with replicating a customised install on many machines is
>> to install one machine with all the required packages.
>> Once ready use a clonezilla iso to boot from it, take a backup and
>> restore it to multiple machines. If DHCP you dont need any changes after
>> this image backup/restore process and pretty easy.
>>
>> If you keep this image in a hard drive/ssh server, you can re-use any
>> time later for wipe-out and restore the vanilla version needs.
>>
>> Also as suggested earlier,
>>
>> Install from an ISO. Do an
>> apt-get clean (to clean /var/cache/apt/archives)
>> install all dependencies, then copy all the debian packages from
>> /var/cache/apt/archives
>>
>> and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.


 Regards
>> James
>>
>>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Ramnarayan.K]

So found these solutions

apt-offline

this guide to using a script - as suggested earlier

Download updates away from home, install at home.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42=47129?f=42=47129#p271839

am going to give the UCK one more try - that seems the easiert if all the
stuff can be on one ISO

will try the ubuntu-customs-builder as well

will let you know when i complete one proper install or if i get into
trouble


thanks
ram




On 20 May 2016 at 06:50, James Sebastian  wrote:

> Dear Ram,
>
> One way to deal with replicating a customised install on many machines is
> to install one machine with all the required packages.
> Once ready use a clonezilla iso to boot from it, take a backup and restore
> it to multiple machines. If DHCP you dont need any changes after this image
> backup/restore process and pretty easy.
>
> If you keep this image in a hard drive/ssh server, you can re-use any time
> later for wipe-out and restore the vanilla version needs.
>
> Also as suggested earlier,
>
> Install from an ISO. Do an
> apt-get clean (to clean /var/cache/apt/archives)
> install all dependencies, then copy all the debian packages from
> /var/cache/apt/archives
>
> and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
> James
>
>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[James Sebastian]

Dear Ram,

One way to deal with replicating a customised install on many machines is
to install one machine with all the required packages.
Once ready use a clonezilla iso to boot from it, take a backup and restore
it to multiple machines. If DHCP you dont need any changes after this image
backup/restore process and pretty easy.

If you keep this image in a hard drive/ssh server, you can re-use any time
later for wipe-out and restore the vanilla version needs.

Also as suggested earlier,

Install from an ISO. Do an
apt-get clean (to clean /var/cache/apt/archives)
install all dependencies, then copy all the debian packages from
/var/cache/apt/archives

and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>>
>>
>> Regards
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Subhadip Ghosh]

Hi Ram,

You can use Synaptic package manager on the first installation. After 
that select all the packages you need to install and create a script. 
You can execute the script to download the packages once from any 
computer and then install those packages from Synaptic itself. It will 
at least bring down your bandwidth usage and the manual effort up to 
some extent.


Thanks,
Subhadip

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Hi

I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
that need to be installed

and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
consuming if i use only the basic install

Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
want to add new / more software .

Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for it
to allow adding other software through apt-get install .

Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated

kind regards
ram
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Ramnarayan.K]

Thanks,  will check

No broadband right now as a lightening storm is in progress

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On 19 May 2016 21:18, "Rohan Garg"  wrote:

Hi

> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated

You want to look at the ubuntu-defaults-image command from
ubuntu-defaults-builder.

Cheers
Rohan Garg

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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

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Hi

> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated

You want to look at the ubuntu-defaults-image command from
ubuntu-defaults-builder.

Cheers
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Ramnarayan.K]

That would be easier using apton
But apton seems to have  issues

And as you say dpkg - I with. Debs will really take a long while

there is a way to have the repos offline on a hdd,  that might be easier,
combined with a script to install the required additional software

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On 19 May 2016 20:11, "Kesavan Subburam"  wrote:

> You could try downloading the .deb packages once, with all the
> dependencies and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>
> But that's the laborious and straightforward way of doing this.
> On 19-May-2016 8:05 pm, "Ramnarayan.K"  wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
>> basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
>> that need to be installed
>>
>> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
>> consuming if i use only the basic install
>>
>> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
>> want to add new / more software .
>>
>> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for
>> it to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>>
>> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>>
>> kind regards
>> ram
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Kesavan Subburam]

You would need a computer that's connected to the Internet to download the
packages though.

Try

apt-get download PACKAGE && apt-cache depends -i PACKAGE | awk '/Depends:/
{print $2}' | xargs apt-get download

Where PACKAGE is your package of interest.
On 19-May-2016 8:11 pm, "Kesavan Subburam"  wrote:

> You could try downloading the .deb packages once, with all the
> dependencies and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>
> But that's the laborious and straightforward way of doing this.
> On 19-May-2016 8:05 pm, "Ramnarayan.K"  wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
>> basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
>> that need to be installed
>>
>> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
>> consuming if i use only the basic install
>>
>> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
>> want to add new / more software .
>>
>> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for
>> it to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>>
>> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>>
>> kind regards
>> ram
>>
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[abhi...@yahoo.es]

Hi, 
 I have two ideas: 
- with 4M linux you can create an image and then restore it to the others
- for the packages there is a possibility to create " meta packages" e.g. 
gnome-desktop which include a lot of other packages
I havent tried any of those myself but i read it is possible

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  On Thu, 19 May, 2016 at 16:34, Ramnarayan.K wrote:   
Hi

I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the basic 
install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates) that need to 
be installed

and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width 
consuming if i use only the basic install

Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i want to 
add new / more software .

Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for it to 
allow adding other software through apt-get install .

Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated

kind regards
ram
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Re: [ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

[Kesavan Subburam]

You could try downloading the .deb packages once, with all the dependencies
and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.

But that's the laborious and straightforward way of doing this.
On 19-May-2016 8:05 pm, "Ramnarayan.K"  wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
> basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
> that need to be installed
>
> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
> consuming if i use only the basic install
>
> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
> want to add new / more software .
>
> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for
> it to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>
> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>
> kind regards
> ram
>
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