[ubuntu-in] "Problem" apt-on does not include all extra software installed

Ramnarayan.K ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 18:39:09 BST 2009


Hi

Had thought of apt-on as the perfect solution to my needs to have all the
software installed after the default installation but it seems not to be.

I just did a fresh install of 9.04 yesterday and have worked to get tonnes
of stuff on to it - GIS, audio and video codecs, ubuntu studion, mint themes
and mintdesktop and lots lots more. whatever updates are there its all
current

Then i had to install mint-desktop which asked for Ubuntu desktop to be
removed, which i did (meaning synaptic did)

So here it gets worrying uninstall ubuntu-desktop what happens if my system
breaks - will be back to square one - so i say ok apton to the rescue

i open apton and ask it to make a dvd of my updated set of packages - it
does and saves it as an image - i go find the image and see that its a
paltry 55 MB, that gives me a bit of a headache

I want apton to capture all my updates, is there anyway i can make it do
that, if not what else is a good solution to making sure i have all my
software and updates backed up so that if my system crashes i don't need to
get on to the net again.

Have posted this on ubuntuforums as well
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1218253


Am thinking that could this be because i have reinstalled jaunty afresh over
a previous jaunty and my /home has been the same and in the previous jaunty
too i made a dvd / .iso image using apton, Is it possible that apton wrote
this down somewhere and remembers and hence is only doing the very latest.

However even i it were doing the latest i have since the last apton backup
downloaded and installed (via synaptic) tonnes of gis software - definately
more than 50 mb. So could it be some sort of bug.


Much thanks in advance
 __________________
K Ramnarayan
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