<div class="vbclean_msgtext" id="post_message_7646835">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 <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1218253">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1218253</a> 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</div> <div class="vbclean_msgtext"> __________________ K Ramnarayan </div>