[ubuntu-za] deleted packages help.

[Morgan Collett]

Bradley wrote:

> Hi, I finally finished upgrading my standard ubuntu into what i think
> is a fully working system with all my
> apps I need, when i decided to back up my .debs onto cd. When i
> realised that all my packages are gone,
> I posted a message on the forum and it seems that I configured
> Synaptic to delete the packages.
> To make it really bad, i only have a 56k line and cant go and download
> all those packages again.
>
> So my request is this, can anyone burn a cd/'s with .debs to make
> ubuntu hoary a working multimedia machine, ie. multimedia,
> dvd enabled , fonts, etc, and whatever else they think necessary,
> eg.gftp, gnomebaker, inkskape, foobillards :)

Can't promise I'll burn the CD, but to list the packages you have
installed, paste in the output from "dpkg --get-selections" at the
command line, then we can see which packages you want...

Morgan