Ubuntu Customization Kit

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About
Screenshots
Releases and downloads
Undocumented features

About

Ubuntu Customization Kit (UCK) is a set of tools for easy cutomization of Ubuntu Linux distribution (and its derivatives, like Kubuntu).
Currently it allows you to:

Create bootable LiveCD with predefined languages based on original Ubuntu/Kubuntu live CD using wizard with GUI.
Build live CD with special features using scripts. It is possible to customize root filesystem (for example install/remove packages), ISO contents (add/remove docs, change names) and initrd (add modules to boot, change boot sequence).

Currently UCK is a registered product on Launchpad, so see there for bug reports and other information: https://launchpad.net/products/uck.
Development has moved to SourceForge: project is called uck.

Documentation

You can find documentation here.

Screenshots

Version 1.1 (using KDialog interface)

Step 1 - welcome screen

Step 2 - choosing language packs to install

Step 3 - choosing language used at boot

Step 4 - choosing desktop environment language packs

Step 5 - choosing ISO image used as base for CD

Step 6 - specifying name of CD

Step 7 - ready to build

Step 8 - building success

Releases

Version 1.1 (June 10, 2006)

Name has been changed to Ubuntu Customization Kit (uck).
Download: uck-1.1.tgz
New features:

GUI:

Added support for installing multiple language packs.
Added support for setting boot language, it can be language variant also (for example pt_BR).
Added possibility of changing CD label.
Fixed removing language-selector-qt and thus kubuntu-desktop. Should fix Malone bug #47846.
Fixed reporting build success in case of backend failure.

Backend:

Added support for setting boot language, it can be language variant also (for example pt_BR).
Added possibility of changing CD label.
Added possibility of passing extra options to mkisofs.

Version 1.0 (May 30, 2006)

Download scripts package
Features:

Simple dialog GUI for creating live CDs with customized language (run ./customize-cd-gui from main directory).
Script for automatic building of customized CD (./scripts/remaster-live-cd.sh) with some examples (see subdirectories of ./customize-dir-examples/ directory).
Possible customization of ISO, root filesystem (SquashFS) and initrd.

Notes:

Building requires about 5 GB of disk space and Internet connection for fetching packages.
Gnome (Ubuntu) building has not been tested. Testers needed :)

Undocumented features

There is a possibility to speed up booting of live CD up to 1 minute, using changing layout of files on disk.
Details are on page: http://lichota.net/~krzysiek/projects/kubuntu/dapper-livecd-optimization/
To use this feature, copy appropriate .sort file to file ./customization-profiles/localized_cd/rootfs.sort and build the CD using GUI.
Layout files available currently:

rootfs-kubuntu-6.06-rc.sort - file for Kubuntu 6.06 RC, can be used for any Kubuntu 6.06 image in any language.
rootfs-ubuntu-6.06-pl.sort - file for Ubuntu 6.06 and Polish language. To use it replace all occurrences of .mo files for Polish language with path to your language .mo files or remove them completely.

This feature will be included in one of the subsequent UCK releases.

Disclaimer:
This tool is provided "as is". Author is not responsible for any damages done by this tool.

Author: Krzysztof Lichota <krzysiek-ubuntulivecdbuild@lichota.net>
Homepage: http://lichota.net/~krzysiek/projects/ubuntu-livecd-customization/
License: GPL v2

This project is dedicated to OU.