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[Hilton Gibson]

frans wrote:
> Allso if your not already doing it, use apt-cacher, it can safe lots of 
> data on your cap.
> There are some nice tutorials on it, but basicily you can point 
> synaptic's network config file towards the server.
> much faster than a internet connection too
Or make your own local mirror;
http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/MakeLocalMirror

Then just keep your mirror up todate. Only one machine to gooble up your
VERY EXPENSIVE bandwidth.

Cheers

> 
> William Kinghorn wrote:
>> Thanks Hilton, will try this
>>
>>   
>>>>> hgibson at sun.ac.za 12/12/08 12:27 PM >>>
>>>>>         
>> William Kinghorn wrote:
>>   
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have 11 PCs, installed Ubuntu 8.10, I have installed a lot of
>>> education packages, I want to install the same packages onto the other
>>> 10.
>>>
>>> I know that there is a command to create a text file of the packages,
>>> then copy the file to the other computers, and install from that file,
>>> but I can't remember which list I belong to which had an e-mail about
>>> how to do this.
>>>
>>> Can someone please give me the 2 commands, one to create the file on
>>>     
>> the
>>   
>>> first PC, two to install the packages onto the other PCs .
>>>     
>> To get the list;
>> dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
>>
>> Copy "installed.txt" to the /tmp folder on the other PC's.
>>
>> On the other PC's type;
>> dpkg --set-selections < /tmp/installed.txt
>>
>> Then run aptitude or synaptic and use the mark as selected function. Not
>> too sure about this. Maybe somebody else can help with that.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>   
>>> William
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
>>
>>   
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