On 10/10/10 17:09, Terry Coles wrote: > On Sunday 10 Oct 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote: >> Hi Simon, >> >>> Wunderbar! I have ABSOLUTELY NO DESKTOP WHATSOEVER. 10.10 is a console! >> ...angels fear to tread. >> >> Why not wait a week? > I didn't and (so far) I seem to have a pretty good installation. > > I did a clean install of Kubuntu, keeping my /home partition. I've still got > to reinstall all the packages that I need that don't come with the live disc, > so something might yet break. However all my winges from 10.04 seem to be > fixed. > > Standby for the new winges ;-) >
On the point of effectively cloning an Ubuntu or Debian instance in terms of the installed packages after a clean install, I have used this method in the past: - run the command 'dpkg –get-selections > ./selectionfile' on the machine to be cloned - when the base install has finished on the other machine copy the “selectionfile” across to it (or stash it in your /home partition) - update the repositories according to your requirements and then run the command 'dpkg –set-selections < ./selectionfile && apt-get dselect-upgrade' on the new build Of course, this only installs the packages and any configuration of those packages will be lost without it backing up on the old machine and restoring it on the new. These days though I tend to not bother with the above, and do a fresh install with every release (usually from the beta - talk about impatient!), and then restore the additional packages as and when I need them, figuring if they don't get reinstalled it's because they're no longer needed! Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
