Thread: help saving app dev files or backup apps
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Patola is offline Patola
2010-07-01 , 11:00
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#9
There is. As root. You have to have extras-devel enabled. Change to an empty directory with lots of free space, say /home/user/MyDocs/debbackup:

Code:
$ sudo gainroot
# apt-get install dpkg-repack
(...dpkg-repack installation...)
# cd /home/user/MyDocs/debbackup
# for package in $( dpkg -l | awk 'NR>5 {print $2}' ); do dpkg-repack $package; done
This is an advanced operation. Many packages are system packages and I don't know what will happen if you try to install them on a fresh flashed install. I'd advise to install only the application debs.
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