reinstalling system and packages

[FireSam]

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Roy Strachan <rdstrac at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> >
> > I need to reinstall ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my machine. But I'd like to
> > record what ubuntu packages are installed so that I can later on
> > reinstall these packages easily. I'm wondering if there is a command
> > to keep track of all the additional packages installed. It is better
> > that this information is dumped into a file so that it can be read
> > some other command to easily reinstall all these packages. Is there
> > such commands for saving the packages info and reinstall the packages?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Peng
> >
>
>
> This works:
>
> http://www.arsgeek.com/2006/09/19/ubuntu-tricks-how-to-generate-a-list-of-installed-packages-and-use-it-to-reinstall-packages>
>
>
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What about apt-clone? http://mvogt.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/apt-clone/
I was looking around for the same thing and thats what I found. I did
not use it yet would like to know what the people here have to say
about it.