Comments on: Create backup of all installed packages using APTonCD in Ubuntu

By: Shubhangi

Shubhangi — Fri, 27 May 2011 17:47:44 +0000

How much time does it takes to do the back up ?
I am just taking the back up of the files in the /var/cache/apt/archives. I clicked on the burn.
It is not showing me any message.

By: Balach Baloch

Balach Baloch — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:05:36 +0000

i have even tried apt-get install to install them but as far as my view is concerned i think this command does not take a look at already available packages and picks them from the download server.

By: Balach Baloch

Balach Baloch — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 10:01:39 +0000

i have done all those steps above but, i don’t know how to install the packages on my system, as i have restored them on the usr/cache/apt/archive but packages are still not installed in my system(mean i can not use or even see them in my programs list. please help and also tell me how will i know which packages are restored and are available in the archive folder?

By: Cristo

Cristo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:42:32 +0000

Looks great, the sys folder /var/cache/apt/archives has a limited amount of recently added/updated software.

How do I create a complete image of all currently loaded packages on my sys so I can get off Karmic. My connection is too slow to redo it in synaptic.

By: Bit Hacker

Bit Hacker — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:12:45 +0000

@chris funck, donno what you’re talkin’ about. It does depend on the nautiluscdburner but you can always install it again.

By: chris funck

chris funck — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:29:23 +0000

****DONT USE IT ON UBUNTU 9.10****

aptoncd package has dependencies on nautilus-cd-burner, which is not supported for Karmic, so once you have clean install of Karmic you wont be able to install ATPONCD which makes this backup unusable

By: dustin

dustin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:24:43 +0000

Many people use the computer janitor, or remove the package files from /var/cache/apt/archives manually to clean their systems. I’m assuming Aptoncd would only backup the packages you’ve yet to clear out of that dir… right?

By: rishi

rishi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:07:56 +0000

nice work !

but it keeps on saying that
“dependencies of the desired file not available in ubuntu 8.04 ?
can any one help

By: jose

jose — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:46:44 +0000

Thanks. Very helpful.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:46:24 +0000

What a useful article!!
I have some experiencia using linux distributions, but I never knew
how to backup my installed system of Ubuntu, now I now how to do it
very easily, thank you very much!!!

By: jj

jj — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:49:35 +0000

What about support for wget command? I like using it because you know specifically where your packages are coming from where it can be from any of a number of places using aptitude and apt-get.

By: someone

someone — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:47:04 +0000

try typing

sudo apt-get install python-support

in the terminal

By: crypticpenguin

crypticpenguin — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:30:47 +0000

everytime i try and install it it keeps saying
Error: Dependecny is not satisfiable:python-suppport.

any ideas?

By: poetfreak

poetfreak — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:30:56 +0000

Thanks for the info! Good work, keep it up.

By: pm5

pm5 — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:47:52 +0000

All articles are really useful for new or less experienced users So Thanks for good work
I want to ask how installation work on new (clone) system for old downloaded software aptcondate.iso yes updates have been taken automatically from aptoncd no extra download (showing also in as installed or obsolete) but there were many other like apache php java adobe reader about 500 mb they are not looking in installed and file by “sudo dpkg --get-selections | grep ‘[[:space:]]install$=’| awk ‘{print $1}’ > installedpackages” 0 bite showing, so please help more about this subject for other then updates softwares which downloaded on other system and are in iso image file how install them with help of iso image