Originally Posted by
jesse c
after many,many hours of my and forum community time i have now repaired my system after i exprimented with different settings in synaptic and deleted something that crashed my system.Now i want to know is there some command line that will bring up all the applied settings in synaptic so i can print out and compare settings the next time i do this,'cause i know i will,im the type that doesnt leave well enough alone JESSE C
I am not completely sure what I post is what you actually want. You mention synaptic and settings several times. Synaptic doesn't control app settings per se, just the packages that are installed on your machine. If you are looking for something that will preserve all your configurations, this won't apply.
If you want a list of all the packages synaptic/dpkg has installed on your system, you can run the following command to get a list. This will create a simple text file, "package-list", on your desktop.
Code:
sudo dpkg --get-selections >~/Desktop/package-list
If you should wish to reinstall all these apps at a later date, you can import the list back into dpkg to reinstall the packages:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --clear-selections
sudo dpkg --set-selections <~/Desktop/package-list
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
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