What do you mean? I suggested that you could completely replace the "sudo apt-get install dselect" and "dselect" commands with apt-get dselect-upgrade
Brian Cluff
On 12/30/2013 11:41 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
Brian.... I think you got ahead of yourself; did you miss the dselect
command in your insructions?
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Brian Cluff <brian@snaptek.comrsync --progress /home/`whoami` /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here<mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> wrote:
This is a great way to backup a system without actually backing it
up completely, but I like to add at least one additional step, that
backs up the configuration of the packages themselves.
First you need to install the deconf-utils package:
sudo apt-get install deconf-utils
That will give you the debconf-get-selections utility that will give
you the contents of the debian package configs in a format that can
be read by debconf-set-selections; which is already on the system so
you don't need any extra packages installed when you do the restore.
debconf-get-selections >~/debconf-selections
Then all you need to do is add:
debconf-set-selections ~/debconf-selections
before the dselect command.
Alternatively you can skip loading the dselect command altogether
and just use in place of it:
apt-get dselect-upgrade
Brian Cluff
On 12/30/2013 09:57 AM, Kevin Fries wrote:
saw this at askubuntu, and it looks quite complete:
A quick way of backing up a list of programs is to run this:
dpkg --get-selections > ~/Package.list
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/sources.list
sudo apt-key exportall > ~/Repo.keys
It will back them up in a format that dpkg can read for after your
reinstall, like this:
sudo apt-key add ~/Repo.keys
sudo cp ~/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/Package.list
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade -y
Settings and Personal Data
Before you reinstall, you should probably back up the settings
from some
of your programs, this can easily be done by grabbing folders
from /etc
and all the content from your user directory (not just the stuff
you can
see in nautilus!):
rsync --progress /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here /home/`whoami`
After you reinstall, you can restore it with:
rsync --progress /home/`whoami` /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here
So all together as a pseudo-bash script.
This assumes there is only one user on the machine (remove /'whoami'
otherwise) and that you used the same username on both installs
(modify
dest. of rsync otherwise).
dpkg --get-selections > ~/Package.list
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list ~/sources.list
sudo apt-key exportall > ~/Repo.keys
## Reinstall now
rsync --progress /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here /home/`whoami`
sudo apt-key add ~/Repo.keys
sudo cp ~/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dselect
sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/Package.list
sudo dselect
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Michael Havens
<bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com><mailto:bmike1@gmail.com <mailto:bmike1@gmail.com>>> wrote:------------------------------__---------------------
well.... it looks as if I may have to reinstall my laptop
(which
sucks) if we can't get x working again. I just realized
something I
didn't do: I did not write down all the ppa addresses. So
what I
would like to know is in which file are the ppa s kept?
then I can
scp that to the tv server and if we can't get x working
again it
won't be as painful a bite. Thanks:-)
:-)~MIKE~(-:
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__org
<mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
<mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.__phxlinux.orghttp://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
<mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:<http://www.goodreads.com/__author/show/1244.Mark_Twain
<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
--
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small
people always do that, but the really great make you feel
that you,
too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1244.Mark_Twain>>
------------------------------__---------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__orghttp://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
<mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
------------------------------__---------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.__orghttp://lists.phxlinux.org/__mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
<mailto:PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
<http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss