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.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@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~(-:
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