hiiiiiii I am very new to fedora but use to with ubuntu an have migrated from ubuntu to fedora but suprisingly i am unable to find any gui in fedora like aptoncd on ubuntu wich lets user to back up there installed software and the user not have to download the software again and agin
please help me out if there is no such GUI then please show me the method manually how i can backup my installed software so that when i format my system able to installed them via command prompt......
Thanks
Right now, there has not anything like AptonCd on Fedora. But its not very difficult to backup the installation archive.
As you prefer GUI, I am trying to make the steps as simpler as possible.
1. Open a terminal and be root by typing: su - 2. Now type: nautilus 3. Now browse through nautilus, and go to FIle System (/) > etc 4. Now open yum.conf file, and edit the line keepcache=0, change the value from 0 to 1. And save the file. 5. Restart your computer.
From now on, whatever package you install, it will be store the downloaded
packages on /var/cache/yum directory. Before u go for a fresh installation of Fedora, just copy the whole yum directory (under /var/cache) to your other removal drive. And after installation just replace the new yum directory with your old archived yum directory. This will do the work.
NB: You will still need internet to update the metadata in this method. If you want full offline process, let me know, I will explain you.
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM, ultimato combat---gals < rajeshwarbindas@gmail.com> wrote:
hiiiiiii I am very new to fedora but use to with ubuntu an have migrated from ubuntu to fedora but suprisingly i am unable to find any gui in fedora like aptoncd on ubuntu wich lets user to back up there installed software and the user not have to download the software again and agin
please help me out if there is no such GUI then please show me the method manually how i can backup my installed software so that when i format my system able to installed them via command prompt......
Thanks
Thanks Angel, For the help but i need full ofline since i use mobile internet and the metadata also takes a bit time to update so it will be very much helpful iff u sugest me of fullofline proces and one more thing that till now i have installed all the plugins of movie player and some of the softwares which are of big size i cannot backup them also
i have kept the rpm but i dont think that with that rpm if reshly installed no netconnection will be required
On 9/18/10, Angel rahmanangel@gmail.com wrote:
Right now, there has not anything like AptonCd on Fedora. But its not very difficult to backup the installation archive.
As you prefer GUI, I am trying to make the steps as simpler as possible.
- Open a terminal and be root by typing:
su - 2. Now type: nautilus 3. Now browse through nautilus, and go to FIle System (/) > etc 4. Now open yum.conf file, and edit the line keepcache=0, change the value from 0 to 1. And save the file. 5. Restart your computer.
From now on, whatever package you install, it will be store the downloaded
packages on /var/cache/yum directory. Before u go for a fresh installation of Fedora, just copy the whole yum directory (under /var/cache) to your other removal drive. And after installation just replace the new yum directory with your old archived yum directory. This will do the work.
NB: You will still need internet to update the metadata in this method. If you want full offline process, let me know, I will explain you.
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:50 AM, ultimato combat---gals < rajeshwarbindas@gmail.com> wrote:
hiiiiiii I am very new to fedora but use to with ubuntu an have migrated from ubuntu to fedora but suprisingly i am unable to find any gui in fedora like aptoncd on ubuntu wich lets user to back up there installed software and the user not have to download the software again and agin
please help me out if there is no such GUI then please show me the method manually how i can backup my installed software so that when i format my system able to installed them via command prompt......
Thanks
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1. Collect the packages together in one directory. You can make as many sub-directories as you want, but there needs to be a top level directory where they all live. That's where we're going to form our repository.
2. Yum uses a digest of the information stored in each RPM to do its work. This information is created using the 'createrepo' program. If you don't have createrepo installed you can install it with:
yum install createrepo
Once you have createrepo installed you need to run it. It only requires one argument which is the directory in which you would like to generate the repository data. So if the packages directory we made in step 1 is in /srv/my/repo then you would run:
createrepo /srv/my/repo
You should see a lot of things fly by but it should finish without an error. In the end you should have a directory named /srv/my/repo/repodata with at least 4 files in it. Maybe more.
3. To make this repository known to yum you need to add a .repo file to your yum configuration. On the systems where you want to use this repo you need to make a new file in /etc/yum.repos.d/. The file can be named anything but the extension on the file has to be .repo. Let's call this one 'myrepo.repo'.
In the file you just need to include the following:
[myrepo] name = This is my repo baseurl = file:///srv/my/repo/
That's all you need in that file. The 'baseurl' line is the path that machine uses to get to the repository.
NB: there are 3 slashes (/) following the file:, not 2. That is correct.
4. Now in /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory open fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo file, check, both files has a line ¨enabled=1¨, change it to 0, it will be enabled=0. Now save both files.
5. Now u can install/update all your downloaded packages offline.
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