updating to hardy

[Willy Hamra]

this is not what i might be looking for, it is EXACTLY what i'm
looking for, thanks a bunch, you're a genius

On 5/5/08, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>
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