Re: Exportings Installed Software List
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:11:07PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 04:27, Brian Nelson wrote:
> > These pre-release debs will help you get aptitude installed in unstable:
> >
> > http://people.debian.org/~doogie/apt/
> > http://people.debian.org/~dburrows/aptitude/
>
> I have other unofficial and pre-release debs on my system, but messing
> around with apt and friends makes me a bit gun shy. Do these have to
> potential to hose my system in bad ways?
apt isn't fundamental; you can always put it back together as long as
you have dpkg and something to download things with.
> What should I back-up before installing these.
I don't think there's anything you should need to back up. You could
take a copy of /etc/apt if you're particularly worried, but dpkg should
ask you before it overwrites anything in there anyway.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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