[ubuntu-za] deleted packages help.

[Bradley Wells]

well,its not so much what i want but what I would like to make a backup
of. See i already installed the stuff I need , but then wanted to backup
the downloaded .debs. thats when i discovered that they were deleted.
So as not to redownload the basics, i was requesting the "basics" .debs
for a clean install ubuntu system to be "ready" for normal use. eg.
multimedia, similiar to a projecyt that was already started on the
ubuntuforums by a guy called jiuuy me thinks.

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:10 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
> 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
>