Quickly reinstall your favourite applications in Ubuntu

By | March 3, 2010

So you want to wipe your hard drive clean and reinstall a fresh Ubuntu copy. Before you do that, it might be wise to make a list of currently installed packages and reinstall them in a jiffy afterwards on the new OS:

sudo dpkg –get-selections > package_list.txt

Save the text file on a thumb drive, format the drive, reinstall Ubuntu, then to a

sudo dpkg –set-selections < package_list.txt
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

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2 thoughts on “Quickly reinstall your favourite applications in Ubuntu

  1. Markske

    I just use puppet, so everything go’s automatic after reinstall

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