upgrading from breezy to dapper and adept

[Matthew Kuiken]

Patrick Healy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed breezy on my home machine some time ago and am very happy
> with it.  I will install dapper on a second machine very soon to make a
> "newer clone" of my home environment but I wonder if there is any way
> that I can easily tell adept to install all of the packages that I have
> installed over the past year+?
>
> That is, for all of those perl modules, latex style files, etc. that I
> have installed using adept it would be nice if I could tell adept to
> install these in one go on top of dapper.  Even a file that listed all
> of the additions I have made would be a start, I suppose...
>   
Another option would be to install deborphan. This package will tell you 
all the packages that you have installed that are not dependencies of 
other packages. Any orphan packages that you want to use will need to be 
re-installed on Dapper.

There is also a graphical version of deborphan called gtkorphan, but it 
is a gtk app, so I don't know if you want the libraries that will come 
with it. OTOH, if you only install the orphans, the libraries for 
something you don't install on the new system won't be a problem. Only 
an issue for your current system.

-Matt


-Matt