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[Matthew Wild]

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 <andy at zrmt.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know enough about this, but what does aptonCD do?
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alan c" <aeclist at candt.waitrose.com>
> To: "British Ubuntu Talk" <ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: 25 July 2007 19:04:18 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...
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> Matthew Wild wrote:
> > On 7/25/07, spep at kaygroth.plus.com <spep at kaygroth.plus.com> 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?
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