ppa file
Brian Cluff
brian at snaptek.com
Mon Dec 30 12:31:25 MST 2013
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 at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at 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 /home/`whoami` /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here
> After you reinstall, you can restore it with:
>
> rsync --progress /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here /home/`whoami`
> 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
> rsync --progress /home/`whoami` /path/to/user/profile/backup/__here
>
> ## 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 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at 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~(-:
>
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