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/var/cache/apt/archives
This is very useful when you want to check which version of package is installed on your system and you can take backup of this folder and install all the packages in another machine
If you want to use GUI Program for this check here
The actual exam of 350-001 or even VCP-310 is just an exam. You have to be practical to figure out solutions to backup issues etc. Sometimes a course like 640-802 also helps you and sometimes a 70-290 is left clueless.
thankx, very useful!
The directory /var/cache/apt/archives may be cleaned up with the commands
aptitude autocleanoraptitude clean. Use theapt-show-versionscommand to list available package versions with distribution.Hi,
I tried to copy the packages from”/var/cache/apt/archives”. I could not able to find any packages in this location.
Is it only If I use Synaptic, packages will be saved there? I installded the packages manually by downloading it one by one and double click on it. Is it because of this processor?
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 in Wubi.
Once apt-get clean or autoclean is run, all the cache will be cleared.
thats a stupid solution it’s just a cache directory.
if you want to have all the list of isntalled packages just use dpkg
--get-selections. but that’s going to pull all of them (dependencies etc).look at debfoster if you only want to know the packages that you actually pulled yourself. if dependencies change in the interim you wont have to reinstall them…