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On 10/10/11 09:04, 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 what’s 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
Tom Try Backup installed package list on current machine *dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt*move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and install packages
*dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt apt-get update apt-get upgrade Regs Martin * -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq