I have made a full system backup, plus I have made a second backup of ~/ to another location. I am about to leave for Fry's where I will purchase a new hard drive for my Thinkpad T61. My intention is to install 64-bit Debian Squeeze on the new hard drive and put the old one (with Jaunty) in a USB case.
After installing Debian I will play with it for a week or so to see whether I like it better than the Jaunty on the old hard disk. In the process I will want to reinstall all my apps. I assume that Squeeze (like Ubuntu) will come with some applications, but I have a ton more that I installed. I'd like to get a list of them, preferably on paper, before I take out the old hard disk. Synaptic lists 2203 packages installed. Not only do I not see any way to print out the list from Synaptic, I also note that the vast majority are dependencies for "real" programs that I have installed, as well as dependencies for Ubuntu itself. Synaptic does have a utility to create a script to install all programs on another computer, but that is not my desire. Part of the process is housecleaning - I want to install most of the programs I currently have installed in Ubuntu, but not necessarily all of them. Furthermore, some may be causing my continuing problems with bluetooth and other issues. I can go into Applications and write everything down on a piece of paper, but there are a lot of command line programs that I have installed as well. Does anyone have any suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
