Help to create an offline repositories of the packages on CDs/DVDs

[Madhusudan C.S]

Hi everyone,
       My name is Madhusudan.C.S. We have a group called
BMSLUG(B.M.S.C.ELibre Software Users Group) in our college
B.M.S.C.E. B.M.S.C.E is one of the oldest private engineering colleges in
India. BMSLUG was formed way back in the year 2000 but it has become very
active from past one year. BMSLUG has become one of the most active LUGs
among all the colleges in Bangalore. Things have changed a lot at BMSLUG in
the past year. Almost all of the LUG were using Fedora because of the vast
collection of packages that come with CDs itself. But now we are more and
more interested towards Ubuntu because of the stablity, support and
popularity of Ubuntu. Almost all of us use Ubuntu in our homes and we are
persuading our college management to install Ubuntu in all the computers in
the college.

     But the problem is Ubuntu comes with a basic installation disc after
which most of the packages have to installed from the Ubuntu repositories
online. But many of people here don't have a decent broadband connection to
do that. So when I tried to create a repository in the CD of the frequently
used packages using the tutorial given on this page
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptMoveHowto, I was successful in creating
the repositories and I burnt the iso image on to a disc. But when I tried to
install the packages using the steps given there on my friends system which
doesn't have an Internet connnection it gave me the following errors
When I typed this command in the terminal after mounting the CD
$ apt-key add /cdrom/public.key

The following errors were produced

gpg: no writable keyring found: eof
gpg: error reading `/cdrom/public.key': general error
gpg: import from `/cdrom/public.key' failed: general error


So many of them have again started shifting towards other distrubutions. But
I somehow don't want this to happen since most of us love to use ubuntu but
cannot because of the above problems due to lack of a decent Internet
connetion. If someone can help me in creating the offline repositories it
would be of very great help to me and entire BMSLUG community and would he.
I hope I would get a response as quickly as possible.

- Madhusudan.C.S

P.S: I used this procedure to create a repository of Ubuntu Edgy amd64
version. And also I have also created a GPG key as explained in one of my
friend's blog
http://ubunturox-aceraks.blogspot.com/2007/03/apt-move-easy-guide.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20070408/205c56ab/attachment.html>