Hi All,
I'm wondering how much of my currently installed packages I can transfer to a new system...
what I have in mind.
I have a HDD split in two. I have 10.4 on one half (/dev/sda6) - my working system for the last year or so since my last upgrade - and I have just installed 11.04 on the other half (/dev/sda8). I wanted to check out the new version rather than upgrading.
note I have my home folder and all stored data on other drives (zfs mirrored disks) - the boot disk is mostly OS related... I can overwrite /dev/sda8 with impunity as long as /dev/sda6 is intact....
What I want to do is capture the wide variety of packages I have installed on the old version and install them onto the new system - without using the dist-upgrade mechanism... I've had it fail too many times leaving me with a complete rebuild being required...
is this (partially) possible or have too many core packages changed?
I was especially thinking of something like http://www.ubuntugeek.com/clone-your...tallation.html
to obtain the list:
dpkg --get-selections | awk ‘$2 ~ /^install$/ {print $1}’ > installedpackages
to reinstall:
cat installedpackages | xargs sudo aptitude install -y
another path would be to clone the entire /dev/sda6 onto /dev/sda8, boot into the duplicate and dist-upgrade that
any other suggestions?
I figure that if I am having this thought, someone else has probably already solved it...
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