Offer to install current packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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usb-creator (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: usb-creator
I just read here that it's actually pretty easy to create a custom list of packages to install:
http://
This is the procedure: first you make a list of currently installed packages by running:
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall > ubuntu-files
Then, on the target machine, you just run this:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
$ sudo dpkg --set-selections < ubuntu-files
$ sudo dselect install
It would be VERY handy to be able to do this automatically when you create a live usb. Just add a checkbox somewhere with the text "replicate currently installed packages on the destination machine" and modify Ubiquity to detect the presence of a "ubuntu-files" file, and if detected, ask you: "this custom disc suggests installing the following packages. Proceed?"
As a user, this would save me a lot of work when I do a clean install and I have to track down all the packages I had installed.