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 Ram *** Cent from a mobil devious with spiel checker On 19 May 2016 20:11, "Kesavan Subburam" <pske...@gmail.com> 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" <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >> >> > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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