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Backup of installed packages on Debian/Ubuntu

Sunday 15 November 2009, by Nadir SOUALEM

You probably might have needed to backup and restore your installed packages on Debian/Ubuntu systems. Here is the solution !

To Backup

dpkg --get-selections > installed_packages.log

To Restore

dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.log

apt-get dselect-upgrade

2 Forum messages

Backup of installed packages on Debian/Ubuntu 2 June 09:34, by Seth

thanks so much for sharing this. still, I need to watch the whole tutorial to understand everything(was glad to find one http://www.videorolls.com/watch/Debian-GNU-Linux-Tutorial-installation ) hope my project will be a success.

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Backup of installed packages on Debian/Ubuntu 24 June 08:35, by Lisa Dylan

This will be very helpful for my essays portfolio. I have chosen to work on Linux for almost everyone in my class chose other platforms that are often used in our school. I have been having a hard time in finding relevant data so I am really happy to have found this one. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to browsing other articles from this website.

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