On 2019-05-14, Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about > reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to > solve many of my problems. > > I have an installation based on: > > $ uname -a > Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 > (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> which I have customized and I am quite happy about. So, I would like > to replicate onto another disk just the baseline without browser > "history", altered configuration files or any such things. As if I had > installed Debian afresh. > Maybe apt-clone would be just your ticket. curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show apt-clone Package: apt-clone Version: 0.4.1 Installed-Size: 61 Maintainer: Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> Architecture: all Depends: python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), lsb-release, python3-apt, python3 Recommends: dpkg-repack Description-en: Script to create state bundles This package can be used to clone/restore the packages on a apt based system. It will save/restore the packages, sources.list, keyring and automatic-installed states. It can also save/restore no longer downloadable packages using dpkg-repack. ... apt-clone clone foo (Creates foo.apt-clone.tar.gz. Copy it to the target machine.) On target machine: apt-get install apt-clone apt-clone restore foo.apt-clone.tar.gz I suppose the destination machine must be in a fresh, relatively virgin state for this to be an operative solution. Good luck. -- “When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all — cash, booze, and a wife — he couldn’t be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground.” – Denis Johnson
