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[Lakin Wecker]

Thanks for the help, I should have figured that it would be fairly easy.

I think I'll probably also make some backups of configuration files, so that
I can restore them after the full install.

Lakin

ps, I'm replying to the list in case some others want something similar.

On 10/12/05, Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a relatively easy way to store the list of currently installed
> > packages and then have apt/dpkg re-install all of these?
> >
> > Lakin
>
> What I do is have a text file named InstallMe with one piece of
> software per line. Any line that has a "#" in it is a comment line and
> the whole line is ignored.
>
> On my new installs, I just run this command (after configuring
> sources.list, and running apt-get update).
>
> sudo apt-get install `cat InstallMe | grep -v \#`
>
>
> If you haven't been keeping such a list, and want to know what you've
> got now these might help.
>
> $ dpkg --list
> This command will list everything that's installed, but won't be
> usefull for reinstalling without a bit of regex magic that's beyond my
> powers. It will also list the things that are installed by default.
>
> If you run as root when you do installs, you can run
> # cat ~/.bash_history | grep apt-get > run_this
> and run_this will have all your apt commands and you can see what
> you've installed so far.
>
>
> --
> Michael Moore
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