Paul Wise wrote: > [Please CC me in reply] > > I recently had a hardware failure and had to reinstall my system. I had > a backup of my apt and dpkg state directories (but not /usr). I now want > to synchronize the old state to my newly installed system. So, install > all packages I had before, with the correct automatically/manually > installed state and from the correct suite. Any thoughts on how? Do you have a backup of /var/lib/dpkg? Or of /var/backups? Those contain the state of the previous system. Bob
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