Keith Edmunds wrote:
> For the future, you might want to run something like this in a daily
> cron job:
>
> dpkg --get-selection > /etc/package.selections
>
Sorry to nitpick, but this should read:
dpkg --*get-selections* > /etc/package.selections
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apart from that small typo, this is a *very* useful tip! Thanks Keith.
jfk
> Put it somewhere where it will be picked up by your backups. Then, if this
> happens again, you can do
>
> dpkg --set-selections < /etc/package.selections &&\
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> to reinstall all your previously-installed packages. If you restore /etc
> before doing that, you can keep your existing configuration settings and
> UID/GIDs, etc.
>
> Keith
>
>
