AptMoveHowto
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It would seem that some ubuntu packages are not inserted into the packages.gz file by apt-move. You must delete the Packages.gz file and remake it with dpkg-scanpackages | It would seem that some ubuntu packages are not inserted into the packages.gz file by apt-move. Is this because of some ubuntu-specific reposiitory structure? You must delete the Packages.gz file and remake it with dpkg-scanpackages. Make the directory writable and then cd into it and run: |
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{{{ cd /mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 sudo dpkg-scanpackages ../../../../pool/ /dev/null > Packages }}} You can identify the cd by making a .disk directory and making an info file in it. Make the /mirrors/debian direcory writable and do {{{mkdir /mirrors/debian/.disk echo "Custom packages" $(hostname) $(date +%y%m%d) > /mirrors/debian/.disk/info }}} |
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Copy the folders contained in /mirrors/debian to a cd. | Copy the contents of what is contained in /mirrors/debian to a cd. |
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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. | On a non-networked ubuntu machine, you can run synaptic, insert the cd and go into Synaptic -> Edit -> Add Cdrom and it will add the contents of the cd to your repositories. |
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* Properly name the cd before you burn it so that the user does not have to do it. This is fixed by making a .disk direcory and putting an info file with the cd name in it. |
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 xubuntu-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 xubuntu-desktop packages)
sudo apt-get -d install xubuntu-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 }}}
It would seem that some ubuntu packages are not inserted into the packages.gz file by apt-move. Is this because of some ubuntu-specific reposiitory structure? You must delete the Packages.gz file and remake it with dpkg-scanpackages. Make the directory writable and then cd into it and run:
cd /mirrors/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386 sudo dpkg-scanpackages ../../../../pool/ /dev/null > Packages
You can identify the cd by making a .disk directory and making an info file in it.
Make the /mirrors/debian direcory writable and do
{{{mkdir /mirrors/debian/.disk echo "Custom packages" $(hostname) $(date +%y%m%d) > /mirrors/debian/.disk/info }}}
Step four Burn the cd
Copy the contents of what is 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 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.
AptMoveHowto (last edited 2008-08-06 16:19:39 by localhost)