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On 10/10/11 12:07, Grant Sewell wrote:
I've found that the Ubuntu uses a thing called popularity-contest to monitor package use and produces a text file with date stamps (http://popcon.ubuntu.com/README) so I should be able to analyse that and produce a list in the same format as Martins selections.txt above. et vouloir* a stripped clean fresh install/upgrade!On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:57:53 +0100 Martin Gautier wrote:On 10/10/11 09:04, tom wrote:I've been backing up /home and then manually reloading the packages after re-installing the basic system. I'm about to 'upgrade' a machine from ubu10.10 to 11.04 but I've a few thousand unwanted packages that I dont particularly want to waste time an bandwidth downloading . Is there a way of finding out whatâs been used lately so I can just do a fresh install, load the these packages and then restore the /home ? Tom te tom te tomTom Try Backup installed package list on current machine *dpkg --get-selections> selections.txt* move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and install packages *dpkg --set-selections< selections.txt apt-get update apt-get upgrade Regs Martin *This would, however, not allow for the opting-out of installing packages that are no longer needed. It would be fine after you'd gone through and removed the packages you no longer need. Grant.
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