[ubuntu-za] deleted packages help.

[Bradley]

  Ok, now I see, thanks for that explanation, I'm at work at the moment 
but will run that as soon as I get home.

I have another problem now, I thinkits more serious but will post a new 
message if I don't solve the problem on UbuntuForums

Thanks Morgan


Morgan Collett wrote:

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>>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.
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>Right, well the "dpkg --get-selections" command will list all the
>packages currently installed on your system, which is the list of .debs
>you need.
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>Obviously you have some installed which are not on the standard
>installation CD, so this list will help determine which additional
>packages you need downloaded.
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>Then hopefully somebody on the list will volunteer to burn those for you :-)
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>>On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:10 +0200, Morgan Collett wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>>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 :)
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>>>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...
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>>>Morgan
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