I'm thinking: sudo dpkg --list > packages.txt
Then print out the packages.txt ? Aaron aa...@kalosaurusrex:~$ Discere docendo - To learn through teaching. Libera Te Tutemet - You, free yourself. On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 13:51, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
