Comments on: Create backup of all installed packages in ubuntu http://ubuntuguide.net/create-backup-of-all-installed-packages-in-ubuntu Ubuntu Tips | Ubuntu Howtos | Ubuntu Tutorials Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:50:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Denny http://ubuntuguide.net/create-backup-of-all-installed-packages-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1#comment-5705 Denny Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:25:43 +0000 http://ubuntuguide.net/?p=940#comment-5705 Hello XMAX, Reason for that is, The application APTonCD copies *.deb packages only from cache folder and since the folder was cleaned, there is no way you can get the packages into the APTonCD appli... Try this, you can get all the packages installed on your machine...This is more efficient compared to APTonCD # Method of taking the back-up of all the installed packages in an Ubuntu machine # Src: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=819396 # # Ignore the warning: dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s) # warning, './dpkg-repack-20691/DEBIAN/control' contains user-defined field 'Original-Maintainer' sudo apt-get install dpkg-repack fakeroot mkdir ~/dpkg-repack; cd ~/dpkg-repack fakeroot -u dpkg-repack `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1` # Copy to the required PC, Get inside the backed up folder and run the installation command! dpkg -i *.deb Hello XMAX,
Reason for that is, The application APTonCD copies *.deb packages only from cache folder and since the folder was cleaned, there is no way you can get the packages into the APTonCD appli…
Try this, you can get all the packages installed on your machine…This is more efficient compared to APTonCD

# Method of taking the back-up of all the installed packages in an Ubuntu machine
# Src: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=819396
#
# Ignore the warning: dpkg-deb: ignoring 1 warnings about the control file(s)
# warning, ‘./dpkg-repack-20691/DEBIAN/control’ contains user-defined field ‘Original-Maintainer’

sudo apt-get install dpkg-repack fakeroot
mkdir ~/dpkg-repack; cd ~/dpkg-repack
fakeroot -u dpkg-repack `dpkg –get-selections | grep install | cut -f1`

# Copy to the required PC, Get inside the backed up folder and run the installation command!

dpkg -i *.deb

]]> By: x-max http://ubuntuguide.net/create-backup-of-all-installed-packages-in-ubuntu/comment-page-1#comment-2017 x-max Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:59:03 +0000 http://ubuntuguide.net/?p=940#comment-2017 excuse me i have one question about this program , when i start my computer and start from recovery mode and chose clean and restart my computer , open aptoncd program i can't found the installed packages. are you know why? excuse me i have one question about this program ,
when i start my computer and start from recovery mode and chose clean and restart my computer , open aptoncd program i can’t found the installed packages. are you know why?

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