Re: ppa file

>     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>
>         <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~(-:

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