How To: Make Your Own Ubuntu Repository DVDs

[BobSongs]

Thanks so much for this guide!

I had three small problems that might be worth mentioning: : I had to find debpartial from an old distribution and use that. I'm using Hardy myself.

I downloaded the packages for Jaunty. I tried adding them through KPackageKit, but this didn't work as I had expected. So I added them with apt-cdrom like the guide said to, which worked just fine.

However, both KPackageKit and Adept failed to handle the DVD switching once I wanted to install something. Synaptic handles the DVD switching.

Sorry; some of the software your referencing is unfamiliar to me. I imagine you're not using Ubuntu, but some derivative such as Kubuntu.

These instructions are specifically for Ubuntu. I'm sorry if they don't meet your needs. While I have enjoyed the K Desktop Environment in the past, its similarity to Windows tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth. Therefore I avoid it if I can.

Thank you for noting that "KPackageKit" and "Adept" fail to add repository DVDs to the list of available packages. And as you stated apt-cdrom at the command prompt does to the trick, proving once again the power of the Linux command line. I'll make a note of that in my tutorial.

[dolphin18]

ahhh, thx for tutorials...

i try with Karmic... then to many error... ubuntu made many change.

now install program more complicated if we use Ubuntu Repository DVDs

back to jaunty....

[k3lt01]

ahhh, thx for tutorials...

i try with Karmic... then to many error... ubuntu made many change.

now install program more complicated if we use Ubuntu Repository DVDs

back to jaunty....

Could you tell us what happened?

[dolphin18]

Could you tell us what happened?

example we want to install abiword, the require 5 files. 2 on disk 1 and 3 on disk 2.

Jaunty will take all necessary file on disk 1 then require disk 2, while the Karmic different, Karmic took a file on disk 1 and then ask for the file on disk 2 and back to disk 1 again.

It would be very annoying when you install ubuntu-restricted-extra

[k3lt01]

I suggest that you load the contents of the disks onto your PC then. I think Luvr has that covered in one of his posts in this thread.

[BobSongs]

ahhh, thx for tutorials...

i try with Karmic... then to many error... ubuntu made many change.

now install program more complicated if we use Ubuntu Repository DVDs

back to jaunty....

Dolphin: can you download the repositories when using Karmic? Or are you just having difficulty following my tutorial? It would help to have some tutorial-specific issues and not "too many error".

[emigrant]

this is a wonderful tutorial.
thank you very much.

Q2: Why don't I skip this mess and download pre-made DVD ISOs?
A1. Pre-made DVD ISOs are fine for a single, never-to-be-repeated download (if time is an issue). Here's the difficulty: to get updates means downloading the ISOs again (sorta time consuming). If a single ISO download is right for you -- use this link: ftp://ftp.leg.uct.ac.za/pub/linux/ub...-packages-dvd/

btw im running jaunty, so where can i find a pre made DVD?

and why can't Canonical release these type of official pre-made DVDs so that ppl with slow internet may benifit.

[emigrant]

is it possible to download one DVD perday, without me sitting 23 hours in the internet cafe?

[dolphin18]

I suggest that you load the contents of the disks onto your PC then. I think Luvr has that covered in one of his posts in this thread.

Yeah, with limited space in harddisk this tutorial its very usefull

Dolphin: can you download the repositories when using Karmic? Or are you just having difficulty following my tutorial? It would help to have some tutorial-specific issues and not "too many error".

i can download it, i following your tutorial since jaunty and success. i thing ubuntu now different with come of ubuntu software center

in my country. internet is a problem. i need 3 days to download 27GB

[dolphin18]

is it possible to download one DVD perday, without me sitting 23 hours in the internet cafe?

may be if the source provide a jigdo it will be usefull.