Thread: Backing-up installed apps - how?
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ks1g is offline ks1g
2006-01-28 , 03:54
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#6
Originally Posted by ziggamon
Has anyone actually tried this?
Also - will it be possible to use Application Catalog to uninstall things later?
I made a backup of /var/lib/install this way but haven't restored it; doing it this way defeats using a package manager as it will have no info that packages have been installed unless the data files the Application Catalog uses are also restored.