ppa file
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 30 12:59:23 MST 2013
sorry,,,, goofy me.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
> 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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