Comments on: Backup installed packages on ubuntu

By: mpi

mpi — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:24:37 +0000

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…

By: Terry Wang

Terry Wang — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 07:14:10 +0000

Once apt-get clean or autoclean is run, all the cache will be cleared.

By: Prabath

Prabath — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:02:18 +0000

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.

By: Bax

Bax — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:58:00 +0000

The directory /var/cache/apt/archives may be cleaned up with the commands aptitude autoclean or aptitude clean. Use the apt-show-versions command to list available package versions with distribution.

By: humo

humo — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:50:54 +0000

thankx, very useful!