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
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