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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