> > I'd probably have just reinstalled. I am doing it now.
> So, 1) minimal install. My plan. > Then 2) add packages. And here's where for you, by the sound of it, > it's been a few years, it might take a few hours of trying to run the > things you want on your server, and discovering what you have to > install to do that. > > Keep that list of names of things you've installed. > > Now you have _your_ personal-server-minimum-install (pretty much). I guess I will do that. I guess I was looking for a up to date tutorial on how dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections and apt-get dselect-upgrade is supposed to work and in particular what is the role of clear-selections which when i did it and then looked at the output of dpkg --get-selections >see-what-is-set-now showed me most of my packages ready to be zapped. I then converted all of the remove to install and it still removed the whole system which i found amusing. in the past i used this http://panuganty.tripod.com/debiantips/packaging.htm but it seems out of date Thanks Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130403043646.ga6...@earthlink.net
