Re: Creating a backup of the system

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:37:40PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > To clear /var/cache/apt/archives run > apt-get clean > Again, here the man page for apt-get will be useful. > apt-get autoclean is a safer alternative. It deletes old versions of debs, while keeping the current ones around.

Re: Creating a backup of the system

To save and restore the list of installed packages use dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections The man page for dpkg will be useful here. From a console run 'man dpkg', or from KDE point Konqueror to '#dpkg'. To clear /var/cache/apt/archives run apt-get clean Again, he

Re: Creating a backup of the system

hi ya On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-15] João Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > how can I create a backup of the system? What I mean is, I have lots of > packages installed; is there a way to save the list of packages that are > installed, and then use that list in another computer to create a system