[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Released

[Scott Scriven]

* Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:
> You could always use :
> dpkg --get-selections > my-pkg-list
> cat my-pkg-list > dpkg --set-selections
> sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
> 
> This will install all packages you had on your previous install.

For that matter, debfoster is a good option here.  You tell it 
which apps you want, and it removes everything not required by 
those apps.  It's pretty handy on long-lived systems, because it 
gets rid of old cruft.

Then, if you do a fresh install, just copy debfoster's "keepers" 
file and you can easily install everything you had before (even 
if the dependencies changed between releases).


-- Scott