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linuxeventually	2010-07-29 , 07:41
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Sorry for confusing you.

The initial commands were diagnostic to see if the apt-get system had any errors it needed to correct (these don't show up in Hildon Application Manager rather it just stops working)

Now that you have reflashed and there are no problems you can ignore that step.

As far as what you asked - saving your .deb packages for re-installation later. You should be able to use the graphical Application Manager as normal.

(If someone wants to package this up as a pretty GUI program, then go for it. I'm not a fan of the syntax related to packaging up GUI programs)

Backup
Make folder/directory to on SD card

Code:

# mkdir /media/mmc1/debz

Copy all installed packages to SD card:

Code:

# cp /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /media/mmc1/debz/

Re-install packages at later date
Make folder/directory in Maemo

Code:

# mkdir /root/debz/

Copy packages from SD card to Maemo

Code:

# cp /media/mmc1/debz/*.deb /root/debz/

Install locally saved packages

Code:

# debzinstall() { cd /root/debz; foo=`ls *.deb`; dpkg -i $foo; }
# debzinstall

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Last edited by linuxeventually; 2010-07-29 at 08:12.

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