[ubuntu-in] How to customize an Ubuntu version

Thu May 19 17:06:20 UTC 2016

Hi Ram,

You can use Synaptic package manager on the first installation. After 
that select all the packages you need to install and create a script. 
You can execute the script to download the packages once from any 
computer and then install those packages from Synaptic itself. It will 
at least bring down your bandwidth usage and the manual effort up to 
some extent.

Thanks,
Subhadip

On Thursday 19 May 2016 08:56 PM, ubuntu-in-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 20:04:55 +0530
> From: "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
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> Hi
>
> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
> basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
> that need to be installed
>
> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
> consuming if i use only the basic install
>
> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
> want to add new / more software .
>
> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for it
> to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>
> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>
> kind regards
> ram
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> From: Kesavan Subburam <pskeshu at gmail.com>
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> You could try downloading the .deb packages once, with all the dependencies
> and use dpkg -i * to install them in each of these machines.
>
> But that's the laborious and straightforward way of doing this.
> On 19-May-2016 8:05 pm, "Ramnarayan.K" <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the
>> basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates)
>> that need to be installed
>>
>> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width
>> consuming if i use only the basic install
>>
>> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i
>> want to add new / more software .
>>
>> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for
>> it to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>>
>> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>>
>> kind regards
>> ram
>>
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> From: "abhieud at yahoo.es" <abhieud at yahoo.es>
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> Hi,?
> ?I have two ideas:?
> - with 4M linux you can create an image and then restore it to the others
> - for the packages there is a possibility to create " meta packages" e.g. gnome-desktop which include a lot of other packages
> I havent tried any of those myself but i read it is possible
>
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>    On Thu, 19 May, 2016 at 16:34, Ramnarayan.K<ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:   Hi
>
> I need to install Ubuntu (or mint) on about 30 laptops , apart from the basic install there is a tonne of other software (and i suppose updates) that need to be installed
>
> and doing that for 30 ls laptops is both time consuming and band width consuming if i use only the basic install
>
> Have tried Ubuntu Customisation Kit (UCK) but this seems to fail when i want to add new / more software .
>
> Of course synaptic does not run but neither does the terminal pop up for it to allow adding other software through apt-get install .
>
> Any suggestions / alternatives would be much appreciated
>
> kind regards
> ram