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Re: [LUG] Package lists for restore/upgrade

 

On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:04:38 +0100
tom wrote:

> I've been backing up /home and then manually reloading the packages 
> after re-installing the basic system.
> I'm about to 'upgrade' a machine from ubu10.10 to 11.04 but I've a
> few thousand unwanted packages that I dont particularly want to waste
> time an bandwidth downloading . Is there a way of finding out whatâs
> been used lately so I can just do a fresh install, load the these
> packages and then restore the /home ?
> Tom te tom te tom

If you have Zeitgeist magic running behind the scenes, then probably.
Other than that, I can't really think of anything that is part of
the system that keeps track of what you've run and when.

Grant.

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