> > > Cam, > I would never laugh "at" you...I may--on ocasions--laugh "with" > you...Even if you're not looking :-) > Seriously though, we have all been there. God knows, I have nuked a > perfectly good installation doing the silliest of things... > What I have done to save time is to write a quick--and very > dirty--script that downloads on install the packages I want (You have > to install a minimal installtion w/network support of course)...I can > have a minty fresh intallation in about an hour without doing a damn > thing....Of course; it only works for slackware > For debian based distros such as kubuntu, once I get a system more or less the way I want it, I usually make a backup of the installed packages by running the following command: dpkg --get-selections > hostname-installed-packages.txt I Then tar this text file up with a copy of the system's /etc/apt/sources.list as I have a tendency to add sources like mad.
From a clean restore simply place the sources.list from your backup into /etc/apt (I also usually move the default one out of the way, though this is not critical). Then you run: dpkg --set-selections < hostname-installed-packages.txt After that run apt-get -f install and now you have all the same packages as before.
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