updating to hardy

[O. Sinclair]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> i decided to do a fresh install of hardy instead of upgrading, due to 
> the problems being reported from upgrades. i dont care about any of the 
> settings i have made, and just to make sure that no settings remain from 
> gutsy, i'm going to delete all hidden files and directories in my home 
> except for ".wine". the only thing bothering me is the programs i have 
> installed, i cant redownload all of them since i have a slow connection, 
> but i have all their debs. i regularly copy the debs from 
> "/var/cache/apt/archives" into a seperate partition mounted at 
> "/archive". and i cant run dpkg on them separately since there is a lot 
> of packages with many dependencies, and running dpkg on all of the debs 
> will probably crash the system since there is debs belonging exclusively 
> to gutsy like adept updates and such stuff. what is the procedure for 
> making APT installing from /archive after installing hardy? is it better 
> to copy them to the cache folder or is it the same?
> thanks in advance
> 
See if you can download and install AptonCD that is a sort of apt backup 
software that might be what you are looking for.
http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/