[QCLUG] My first meeting

[Arron Lorenz]

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I'd like to say thanks to everyone at the LUG meeting last night. So thanks=
!
My girlfriend, and I very much enjoyed ourselves. It was a fun discussion
and I'm sure we will make it to more meetings. Even if I do have to give up
the open bar at the Blue Grass Community Club. I was thinking today about
what we had talked about in regards to making a list of all packages
installed. Well when I got home from work I was looking at DIGG and BAM
there was a new article talking about this exactly.
The title was something along the lines of "How do you keep all of your
programs and still get the benefit of a clean install.

The full article is available here:
http://hehe2.net/linuxhowto/howto-fresh-ubuntu-install-without-losing-your-=
current-settings/

Here is a summary:
1) Make a full list of installed applications
1-1) sudo dpkg =96get-selections > /home/user/package.selections
1-2) If you use custom sources back up /etc/apt/sources.list
1-3) backup your home folder including hidden files
1-4) Backup all files to an external media

2)Restore the installed programs
2-1)Copy the package.selections file back to your home folder
2-2) Restore custom sources
2-3) then run an apt-get update
2-4) then run the following to download and install all the apps sudo dpkg
=96set-selections < /home/package.selections && apt-get dselect-upgrade
2-5) restore home folder backup including hidden files
2-6) log out and log back in

That should cover it all.

Also I had mentioned apt on cd http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/   is a nice
GUI that does this but backs up the actual packages to a cd or dvd or usb.
It is very handy for installing linux a computer with slow or no internet. =
I
like to do a VirtualBox install of the current version install all the apps
the new computer will need and then just run apt on cd.


Regards,
Arron

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From:
Arron James Lorenz
Reel to Reel Drive In
http://www.DavenportDriveIn.com
563-579-7046

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