The following packages...(too many)

[Jay Daniels]

On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 01:41 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> Goh Lip wrote:
> 
> > It is not so simple just to copy and move back the files after installation.
> > 
> > make sure you have build-essential installed
> > make a dir in your home say, Repo
> > copy all the *.deb files to Repo
> > at Repo,
> > sudo dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null | gzip -9c > Packages.gz
> > burn cd of all things in Repo
> > after clean reinstallation,
> > sudo apt-cdrom add
> > 
> > when you install some packages that was in past installation, it will 
> > prompt you for the cd and install from there instead of downloading again.
> 
> And yes, autoremove and autoclean first.
> 
> 

Thanks Goh Lip, I will try this tomorrow.


jay