You could always use : <br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">dpkg --get-selections > my-pkg-list<br><br></div>This will list everything that you have installed and then to restore<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">cat my-pkg-list > dpkg --set-selections<br>
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade<br></div><br>This will install all packages you had on your previous install.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Walter Lamia <<a href="mailto:walterlamia@buildingcoach.com">walterlamia@buildingcoach.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I have to remark on this, it's one of my main Linux hot buttons. Clean
installing to upgrade is just not a viable option, once you have
installed a favorite set of non-standard applications. Going back
through and figuring out what has been installed, and rebuilding, makes
upgrading no better, and actually worse, than M$. The Linux community
MUST address this long-standing issue in a user-friendly way.<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 9:27 AM, siblog <<a href="mailto:tehsiblog@gmail.com" target="_blank">tehsiblog@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And I think you can just
upgrade to the newest version by running "update-manager -d" or
"update-manager --devel-release", that way you don't have to do a full
re-install if you don't want to. I have done this </span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">for some of the past Alpha
releases of Hardy Heron and it has worked great. Here is the link to
the upgrade page - <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades</a></span><br>
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I always do a clean install (I have a separate partition for /home). In
my experience if you make too many changes the update doesn't go as
smooth and I like cleaning things up anyway. My iMac install died
anyway. Not sure why but fsck says something about something being
shared and it dumps to command line and won't do anything. I think a
clean install is called for. I just hope I can use a live cd to copy
files off.<br>
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-jim<br>
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