On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:32:39PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 January 2011 17:20:05 Rob Owens wrote:
> > [M]aybe there is a way to convince apt/aptitude
> > to tell you what applications were installed purposedly (not
> > automatically installed to resolve dependencies).
On 2011-01-27 00:20, Rob Owens wrote:
> I would try to get a list of those applications that you really care
> about.
I fully agree with Rob, having done what you want to do already several
times.
- the selections and print them
- use an old-school pencil to mark what you want
- install your new
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 17:20:05 Rob Owens wrote:
> [M]aybe there is a way to convince apt/aptitude
> to tell you what applications were installed purposedly (not
> automatically installed to resolve dependencies).
aptitude search '~i!~M'
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-.
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 01:23:37PM -0500, Tom Roche wrote:
> The final thing I believe I need to do (please suggest anything else I
> should know) is to backup the list of currently-active (installed and
> selected) packages so as to be able to restore them quickly and
> completely in the new envir
>
> Can work around these package-naming differences?
Sorry for dirty and incomplete solution, it's first that came on my mind.
but on the other hand, you may build something upon this:
first of all, you need to find packages that have different names.. so you
must issue command:
dpkg --get selec
In <87pqrjxu2t@pobox.com>, Tom Roche wrote:
>Roman Khomasuridze Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:23:58 +0400
>> one thing you have to take in account while doing
>> "dpkg --get-selections" part: AFAIK Ubuntu package naming [departed]
>> quite much from Debian’s, and thus LMDE's ([especially] python
>> packa
Tom Roche Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:23:37 -0500
>> The final thing I believe I need to do [to migrate Ubuntu -> LMDE] is
>> to backup the list of currently-active (installed and selected)
>> packages so as to be able to restore them quickly and completely in
>> the new environment, so that I don't need
Hi Tom,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
> >From other reading, one way to do this is
>
> # in terminal in ubuntu
> dpkg --get-selections > "${PACKAGE_FILE}"
> # in terminal in LMDE
> sudo dpkg --set-selections < "${PACKAGE_FILE}"
> sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
> sudo aptitude u
In <87y667y15i@pobox.com>, Tom Roche wrote:
>summary: I'm preparing to migrate a laptop from Ubuntu Lucid to Linux
>Mint Debian Edition 10 and want to have the same packages (c.p.) active
>after the migration. I believe I know how to migrate the packages using
>`dpkg` and `apt-get`, but would p
It's not the direct answer to your question, because I'm not quite sure you
can do all this with aptitude.
BUT, there's one thing you have to take in account while doing "dpkg
--get-selections" part: AFAIK Ubuntu package naming derived quite much from
Debian’s, and thus LMDE's (espesically python p
summary: I'm preparing to migrate a laptop from Ubuntu Lucid to Linux
Mint Debian Edition 10 and want to have the same packages (c.p.) active
after the migration. I believe I know how to migrate the packages using
`dpkg` and `apt-get`, but would prefer to migrate the packages using
`aptitude` alon
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