How to create an Ubuntu update CD/DVD
Tuesday, 27. January 2009, 21:02:27
How to create an Ubuntu updates CD/DVD
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Before you let the computer update, start Synaptic Package Manager and enable full package caching. Click Settings > Preferences, click the Files tab, and ensure "Leave all downloaded packages in the cache" is selected. Then close Synaptic and allow Update Manager to update the system as usual (you’ll find Update Manager on the System > Administration menu if you want to force an update; hit the Check button when Update Manager starts to refresh the package lists).
2. Once the updates have downloaded and installed, select CD/DVD Creator from the Applications menu and then open another Nautilus window (Places > Home Folder). Using that window click on "file system" on the left then browse to /var/cache/apt/archives/.
You can copy or drag all the files ending in .deb to the CD/DVD Burner window. Then click the Burn to Disc button. Insert either a CD or DVD-R/RW disc, depending on the total file size of the packages.
3. On the computer that is to be updated make a folder on your desktop and call it "packages", copy all the updates from the freshly burned CD/DVD disc to the empty folder and then type the following (this assumes the packages have been copied to the folder called packages on the desktop).
in a terminal type the following:
Once the command has completed (it will take some time and you will see a lot of output scroll past; this is harmless), you can now delete the folder containing the packages.
if you don't have internet access, or you don't know what to download you can can get the updates from this links. This is only for "Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.4".
This updates were created after a fresh installed of Ubuntu 8.4, this pc never sleeps and as soon as it updates I will add more as they come through.
They are .deb packages inside a zip folder so you will have to unzip them before you can use them.
update 1
update 2
update 3
update 4
note: keep in mind that Ubuntu updates very often so the list could get long.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Before you let the computer update, start Synaptic Package Manager and enable full package caching. Click Settings > Preferences, click the Files tab, and ensure "Leave all downloaded packages in the cache" is selected. Then close Synaptic and allow Update Manager to update the system as usual (you’ll find Update Manager on the System > Administration menu if you want to force an update; hit the Check button when Update Manager starts to refresh the package lists).
2. Once the updates have downloaded and installed, select CD/DVD Creator from the Applications menu and then open another Nautilus window (Places > Home Folder). Using that window click on "file system" on the left then browse to /var/cache/apt/archives/.
You can copy or drag all the files ending in .deb to the CD/DVD Burner window. Then click the Burn to Disc button. Insert either a CD or DVD-R/RW disc, depending on the total file size of the packages.
3. On the computer that is to be updated make a folder on your desktop and call it "packages", copy all the updates from the freshly burned CD/DVD disc to the empty folder and then type the following (this assumes the packages have been copied to the folder called packages on the desktop).
in a terminal type the following:
sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/packages/*.deb
Once the command has completed (it will take some time and you will see a lot of output scroll past; this is harmless), you can now delete the folder containing the packages.
if you don't have internet access, or you don't know what to download you can can get the updates from this links. This is only for "Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.4".
This updates were created after a fresh installed of Ubuntu 8.4, this pc never sleeps and as soon as it updates I will add more as they come through.
They are .deb packages inside a zip folder so you will have to unzip them before you can use them.
update 1
update 2
update 3
update 4
note: keep in mind that Ubuntu updates very often so the list could get long.
WIDGETIZE
suribe # 28. January 2009, 02:14
Anonymous # 17. February 2009, 22:11
good thing to know!!!! :)
Anonymous # 7. March 2009, 01:18
STUMBLED!
Hi there, I really appreciated your work. It really helped me and learned another amazing trick in ubuntu.
One more thing, could you update your zip files for future ubuntu versions? So that we(including me) won't ever bother re-doing the process again. I know it will be a bother to you just do it if you can.
I'll keep watching for your update and your next post. :)
Thanks you so much!
Loreto
ubuntunerd1 # 7. March 2009, 02:40
Anonymous # 8. March 2009, 08:41
Your welcome bro! Great blog deserves a good comment :)
I'll look forward for the updates.
Anonymous # 29. July 2009, 09:10
Errrr... Why you did not use APTonCD?
Anonymous # 23. August 2009, 07:50
hi,
thanks for the info, I think this is the way I need to update the system after reinstalling ubuntu. need not to download all again.
Anonymous # 3. September 2009, 05:34
great tip, I will need exactly this situation b/c I am moving somewhere I can only connect via GPRS... I know deadly slow, so the updates for a single computer will be brutal, never mind 3 laptops.
But I change the options to save downloaded files in cache, but after an update I went to the /var/cache/apt/archive there were 497 files already there, some which date back to 2005, and I am unsure why. This is a fairly fresh install of 9.04 (not an upgrade from 8.10) and the option to delete packages after update was checked (default I guess). So why would this archive folder be chock full of packages and they were deleted as updates were run and completed?
Anonymous # 3. September 2009, 05:39
ok DOH! nm I just went back and the default selected was not to delete after packages were installed, rather default is to delete packages which are no longer available. so that makes sense.
so all of the packages in this folder would be the updates that have been required since a fresh installation of 9.04? if I installed a fresh install again and copied all of these packes to the desktop of the fresh install and ran them then that computer would be 100% up-to-date with the computer the files were copied from?
cool, thanks! might just be saving me a hellava lota agro.
ubuntunerd1 # 3. September 2009, 16:50
Anonymous # 26. September 2009, 21:32
nice.