Backing up cache archives

[Jonathan Patrick Davies]

On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:15, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Hi, have installed much software, codecs and tools on my kubuntu system,
> there are many packages in my apt cache archive from the multiverse. How
> can I make a backup CD of all these so that if I later reinstall kubuntu, I
> can install all my software from the backup rather than re-download
> everything again? It's also useful as I may reinstall my computer (for
> whatever reason) in the absence of an internet connection and it seems a
> little unfair that I would have to miss out on all the fun.


Put everything in /var/cache/apt/archives/ onto a CD.

Jonathan
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