I'll try again. Email issues at the moment apparently...
M. On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 10:45 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 09:00 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: > > I want to have all the apps that i have installed now..including > > firefox addons and bookmarks.... Burn /home (and all the > directories/files starting with a ".") to a > CD/DVD > > > Short of taking screendumps of everything...is there another way? > > as root: > > dpkg --get-selections >> ~/current.packages > > Check this file and remove any that you don't recognise/want to be > installed on the new version, then save it to a backup somewhere. > > When you have the new system installed, run (as root) > > dpkg --set-selections < /path/to/backup/current.packages > > it should then install all the packages that are listed in that file > _and_ pull in any dependencies. > > Hope this helps, > > Matt. > -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't let them take your data - http://www.badphorm.co.uk/ Please use ISO Approved file formats (.odt/.ods/.odp/.odg/.pdf) for attachments. If you wish to convert legacy Microsoft documents to these formats, please use Open Office (http://www.openoffice.org/) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
