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   Florian Diesch wrote:   
   > CBFalconer  wrote:   
   >    
   >> I recently added a herd of applications through Synaptic, involving   
   >> a long session of scrolling through aps and selecting them.  I   
   >> expect to destroy this system and re-install it shortly, in order   
   >> to do some reasonable partitioning.   
   >>   
   >> With that preamble, has synaptic kept a log of the installations so   
   >> that I can simply repeat it after the re-install.  And, if so,   
   >> where.   
   >    
   > If you aren't afraid of the command line:   
   >    
   >  dpkg --get-selections > installed_pkgs   
   >    
   > Then save the file installed_pkgs and after re-installing do   
   >    
   >  sudo sh -c 'dpkg --set-selections < installed_pkgs'   
      
   I'm not, and that looks like it will do nicely.  Thanks.   
       
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