Ubuntu 9.04 update to something newer

[Nathan Dorfman]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
>  - The second is a little discipline: On every new installation, create a
> file in your home directory (I call it adminlog.txt). Every time you make
> some administrative change add a dated note saying what you did.  (Mostly
> this will be the programs you install.)  Now, after you want to install a
> new version of Ubuntu, you can refer to your notes to help you get things
> the way you want them again.

Everything you install using the software repositories is logged
already in /var/log/apt. So even if you haven't been doing this, you
can find the packages you need there.