Hello everybody, I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the manuals; perhaps you can help me:
Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can (a) download all of them in one go and (b) reinstall exactly those package after erasing all of my HD For example, if I make dist-upgrade, I guess only those packages are downloaded that are no longer up-to-date on my box, which might not be all. Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually selecting every single package. For example, SuSE allows to save a package configuration (to a floppy disk among others). And when doing a new install, I can load that config from the disk, so I need not go through package selection again. Is something similar possible with Debian too? Thing is, I'll have to completely erase my HD, and I want to minimize the time to setup everything to my liking afterwards. Thanks for your help, Kai