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On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:57:53 +0100 Martin Gautier wrote: > > 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 > > 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 > > > 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 > * This would, however, not allow for the opting-out of installing packages that are no longer needed. It would be fine after you'd gone through and removed the packages you no longer need. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq