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The tool will also allow you to automatically create media with all of your .deb packages located in one especific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet conection. The tool will also allow you to automatically create media with all .deb packages located in one especific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet conection.
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 * Jack just been installed Ubuntu and configured it to a rad look, with all your favorite applications, packages, codecs, and everything is working very well. But, by the course of destiny, he needs format your PC, and all packages will be lost, and later he will must download all packages again.

 * Kate do not have a Internet conection in your home... but she wants to have a way to install your favorites (or needed) packages in your Ubuntu box.

 * Hugo is making a Ubuntu network in your office with 50 computers that will be run Ubuntu. He is downloading the same 534 packages in all 50 machines, one by one.

 * Charlie is a happy boy... he is going to pass 2 mounts in the home of your grandmother, but. There in the Lost Island is there no Internet conection. In your home, where he stay now, he have a 10Mbts Internet link, and he wants take with you all the repositories, to use in your off-line-notebook.

 * Sawyer have been instaled thousands of packages in your Dapper box, but... the Edgy is comming, and he wants reinstall the system. But, he wants have the same packages (not the same version of then) in Edgy too, but he don't know the name of packages that have installed, and he wants a automagic way to do it.

 * Sun is a pretty girl that like various flavors of desktops, she likes KDE, GNOME, XFCE... and many others desktops envirorments... She wants have all instalable desktops and metapackages (and yours dependencies) in one (or more) DVD to have with you in anyway.

APTonCD

Summary

A GUI-based tool which allows to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers. The tool will also allow you to automatically create media with all .deb packages located in one especific repository, so that you can install them into your computers without the need for an internet conection.

Rationale

Use cases

  • Jack just been installed Ubuntu and configured it to a rad look, with all your favorite applications, packages, codecs, and everything is working very well. But, by the course of destiny, he needs format your PC, and all packages will be lost, and later he will must download all packages again.
  • Kate do not have a Internet conection in your home... but she wants to have a way to install your favorites (or needed) packages in your Ubuntu box.
  • Hugo is making a Ubuntu network in your office with 50 computers that will be run Ubuntu. He is downloading the same 534 packages in all 50 machines, one by one.
  • Charlie is a happy boy... he is going to pass 2 mounts in the home of your grandmother, but. There in the Lost Island is there no Internet conection. In your home, where he stay now, he have a 10Mbts Internet link, and he wants take with you all the repositories, to use in your off-line-notebook.
  • Sawyer have been instaled thousands of packages in your Dapper box, but... the Edgy is comming, and he wants reinstall the system. But, he wants have the same packages (not the same version of then) in Edgy too, but he don't know the name of packages that have installed, and he wants a automagic way to do it.
  • Sun is a pretty girl that like various flavors of desktops, she likes KDE, GNOME, XFCE... and many others desktops envirorments... She wants have all instalable desktops and metapackages (and yours dependencies) in one (or more) DVD to have with you in anyway.

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Unresolved issues

BoF agenda and discussion

CategorySpec

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