system refresh [update]

[John Dangler]

Prior to wiping and starting the cd install again, 
I'll make a tarball of my home dir
but also other files which I'd like to be able to restore...
/etc/apt/sources.list
/etc/networking/interfaces

Any others that would be good to have?

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 18:14 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> I'm thinking of refreshing the install of my Ubuntu desktop.  I've
> fooled with loading and unloading so many different apps that I've
> pretty well trashed my setup, and, although I use this box every day, I
> figure with a tarball backup of my home directory (and a tarball of the
> entire system), I can get back what I need, which is essentially just
> mail (critical), and possibly my keyring and dev files...
> 
> I have the Dapper cd, and I know I want the gnome desktop and OO.o (I've
> been tempted to go to KDE a few times, but have never taken the plunge,
> since I'm used to gnome), but I know that I want to add - 
> 
> NVIDIA (this is critical to get X to start at all...
> 
> vmware-server (for a Win part)
> 
> Some graphics pkgs - 
> Gimp, Blender, Inkscape,  Scribus
> 
> Internet Tools - Skype/Wengo (I need to try this out)
> gaim, bmon, ethereal, firefox (with dev plugins)
> 
> flash-player9, gxine
> 
> A development environment consisting of Eclipse, Ruby/Rails, Sun Java
> JRE (I'll need SE and Beans for school), mySQL, and Apache/Lighttpd
> (never could get lighttpd to run a rails app).
> 
> I have a webcam (Logitech Pro 3000) with audio/video, but have never
> gotten that to work...
> 
> I have a Lexmark 6500 all-in-one printer (but have never gotten that to
> work, either).
> 
> Other apps - rosegarden (the repo versions are waaay old, so I'd like to
> produce the .deb file for this one and put it to the repo folks to
> include, although I know it needs a newer version of cmake than what's
> in the repo's at this moment.)
> 
> Since mail is the critical piece here, can I reinstall Ubuntu on the
> system, and just restore my .evo directory?
> 
> Also, any suggestions on other apps would be cool.  I've tried a good
> number of them, some of which I'll re install later, but for the moment,
> I just want to refresh the system install and basic apps that I know
> I'll need.
> 
>