[ubuntu-za] Interrupted Upgrade

[William Walter Kinghorn]

Hi Tim,

Unfortunatly you have already re-installed, but follow the advice from these sites, so that next time you already have a list of the packages that are installed

Look at these sites about "Save Markings" in Synaptic, and "dpkg --get-selections" from command line

http://lifehacker.com/5146028/save-synaptic-markings-to-speed-up-ubuntu-reinstallation

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17014/

http://geekyninja.com/archives/clone-an-ubuntu-debian-based-system-using-synaptic-markings/

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1057608

Hope this helps

William
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From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Tim Johnson [tim at pteq.net]
Sent: 24 August 2009 00:53
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Interrupted Upgrade

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:45:17 +0200, Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal-pc.org> wrote:

> Tim Johnson wrote:
>> On Friday I decided to upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty on my laptop
>> (elderly Fujitsu Siemens P4 with dead battery).
>> At some point during the process, power was interrupted and I ended up
>> with a non-bootable disaster.  On booting I end up at a BusyBox prompt
>> and
>> have no idea where to go from there.
>>
>> I then did a fresh install of Jaunty onto a new partition and created a
>> /home partition too.
>>
>> Everything went fine and Jaunty looks great (btw, I have an old built-in
>> Intel graphics card and have no problems with it).
>>
>> My question is this:  Can I copy my old /home folder into my /home
>> partition and regain all my previously installed apps etc?  Would a
>> fresh
>> installation of each app be a better approach?
>
> You need to install all the apps.  Your home directory only contains the
> local configs and data, not the apps.
>
>                       Lee
>
Thanks Lee... I thought as much.

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