AptMoveHowto

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This page will describe how to make a cd which contains packages you have downloaded on one machine using apt or synaptic. The cd will be a repository that you can easily use on another machine using synaptic or apt-cdrom.

For example, I will show how to make a cd which contains the edubuntu-desktop package with all of it's dependancies.

The user of the cd will not need to use the command-line.

= Step one Install the apt-move package =

{{{
sudo apt-get install apt-move
}}}

(Or just use synaptic)


I change the setting in /etc/apt-move.conf from

{{{
CONTENTS=no
}}}
to
{{{
CONTENTS=yes
}}}
So that a file with the contents of the packages will be created.

= Step two Download the packages you want to put on the cd =

In this example, we are starting from a freshly-installed system. We need to clean out the cache of packages in /var/cache/apt/archive. If you have already installed other packages, be sure that you leave them there so that they are put on your custom cd.

So, delete every package in /var/cache/apt/archives

{{{sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
}}}

And then install (or just download the edubuntu-desktop packages)

{{{
sudo apt-get -d install edubuntu-desktop
}}}

This will put the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives. Apt-move will look there by default.

= Step three Run apt move to create the archive structure =

Make sure you have enough disk space first.


{{{sudo apt-move get
sudo apt-move move
sudo apt-move packages
}}}

= Step four Burn the cd =


Copy the folders contained in /mirrors/debian to a cd.

On a non-networked ubuntu machine, you can run synaptic, insert the cd and Go into Synaptic -> Edit -> Add Cdrom and it will ask you to pick a name for this cd. Enter it and it will add the contents of the cd to your repositories.

You can also do it from the command-line with

{{{
sudo apt-cdrom add}}}

** To DO:
 * Add an override file so that you can use pinning on the offline repository packages.
 * Properly name the cd before you burn it so that the user does not have to do it.		 #REFRESH 0 http://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptMoveHowto

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