ppa file

[Brian Cluff]

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>> 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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