It creates an APT repository on a CD/DVD. You are able to select which packages you want to add to the disc. It's a great way to distribute updates, etc. to PCs with no internet access.
See the site here: http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ I filed an issue on Launchpad, since it pops up a dialog when a duplicate .deb was detected. Handling as many packages as I was it got very annoying to keep clicking OK. This has apparently been fixed, but I don't think in the version in Feisty. If you are going to use it the way I did, it might be best to build from source. Matthew. On 7/25/07, Andy Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't know enough about this, but what does aptonCD do? -------- Andy Loughran www.zrmt.com m: 07921076319 ----- Original Message ----- From: "alan c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <[email protected]> Sent: 25 July 2007 19:04:18 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Matthew Wild wrote: > On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install >> things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet >> access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE >> schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small >> .debs (think WSUS). Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are? > > > About 30GB, or so I was told... > > As >> to price, buying from and normal retail outlet will be expensive, somebody >> must have a trade account at a cash'n'carry somewhere? >> >> Steven Pepperell >> > > > I know someone who lives in another country with only dial-up access to the > internet. While it is of course possible for him to order a CD from shipit, > Ubuntu is still only supplied with a basic set of applications. > > Instead I am sending him a CD by post, along with a custom DVD of packages. > I wrote a small script to parse the Ubuntu popcon results, and select the > top N packages that fit into a specified capacity. I then passed these to > 'aptitude download' which will grab the debs, which can then be used by > AptOnCD. This way I managed to build myself a DVD containing pretty much > most of the commonly installed packages. > > I even made a copy for myself, for when I take my laptop on the road... it's > really handy :D Of course the obvious benefit of a HDD is greater capacity, > and you can update it whenever necessary. Still, I just wanted to share my > story :) nice one Matthew The DVD idea could be continued on a basis of the most popular or whatever, and be available as an active choice download perhaps? -- Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
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