[SOLVED] Apt on CD

[DaCalebMan]

Hey guys, I found this cool app called Apt on CD, and I need it to back up my applications before I reinstall Ubuntu. Where can I find the complete packaged .deb? Because the PC I'm installing this on doesn't have internet. And gdebi wants to download extras with it.

Thanks,

~Caleb

[DaCalebMan]

Okay, never-mind. I downloaded the source code instead.
But I noticed a little problem too. The directory APTonCD looks for .deb files was empty! Later I realized that the problem was my empty cache. I had set ubuntu to flush the cache every-so-often to save space. There's no way to get those files back, but there is a way to re-package installed apps...

Use this code:

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

It will recreate all your .deb packages in the current directory, which you can use APTonCD to add those files to the medium to be created.

Woohoo!

I saved my own problem. Hope this helps other too.

~Caleb