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

[Mallikarjun(ಮಲ್ಲಿಕಾರ್ಜುನ್)]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> First coming to apton, it is a software which creates an image of all the
downloaded software, so that you can install these softwares on fresh
installation without downloading again. Apton is like keeping backup of deb
files not entire system.
If you want to create a backup/image of your desktop, try remastersys
(excellent tool).

>
> Much thanks in advance
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> K Ramnarayan
>
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