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SaintDanBert
May 19th, 2011, 11:23 PM
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04. I have a ton of installed packages -- some from synaptic, some from Software Center, some from downloaded *.deb files. I want to update to Ubuntu 11.04 by clean install.

After I spin the installer and run the initial update, what is the most effective way to make sure that my new install has all of my favorite packages?

I know that I can use --get-selections and --set-selections from dpkg. I'm worried that the package list from the older(10.04) release will confuse things when I apply them to the new (11.04) release.

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

jerrrys
May 20th, 2011, 10:06 AM
I'm worried that the package list from the older(10.04) release will confuse things when I apply them to the new (11.04) release.

i have done this; any packages that cannot be loaded in 11o4 should just error out

as for how

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/backup-installed-packages-on-ubuntu.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=819396&page=6
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261366
http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/09/list-installed-packages-on-your-ubuntu-linux/#more-80
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201524
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7157175&postcount=5