can in be implemented via a GUI like android's titanium backup. u can backup seperate apps and also the whole phone like backupmenu does.

Thank you, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

Can you? Do you know what commands I can run on the command line to backup an entire application and restore it on another phone?

I know this is borderline piracy, but Nokia isn't giving me any choice.

@lucm
hmmm...this post since 2010 and now we are 2012 and we have backupmenu it is better than this it will back up all the applications not the name list and you can restore them as long you got backupmenu application

./sifo

backup:
restore:

backupmenu. It's the answer. Search for it. even more importantly, it won't only allow You to backup/restore some useless "app", but will also save Your a** many times, without need to reflash device, in case something gone wrong.

/Estel

No promises, but, if your friend downloaded a conventional .deb installer file then there's every chance it'll be cached in /var/cache/apt/archives on his/her phone.

If it is, then copying the deb file and installing it with dpkg -i <filename> should do the trick.

Ho-hum. A little bit of digging reveals that the file is available on the Nokia Ovi repository.


maemo:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hildon-application-manager.list
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/apps/ ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle/ssu/203 ./
deb https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com/fremantle1.2/ovi/ ./
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras/ fremantle-1.3 free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/community/ fremantle free non-free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/community-testing/ fremantle free non-free

maemo:~# apt-cache search panorama
panorama - Capture panoramic images on the go
morphoquickpanorama - Morpho QuickPanorama Free Trial
milkyway-wallpaper - The Milky Way panorama
hemsedal2008-wallpaper - Panorama from Hemsedal skicenter
rmz-helsinki-wallpaper - A panorama of Helsinki
rmz-senaatintori-wallpaper - A panorama of the Senaatintori, Helsinki
vj-wallpaper - A view on a tiny lake in spring time

maemo:~# apt-get install panorama
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
panorama
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 458kB of archives.
After this operation, 1102kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://downloads.maemo.nokia.com ./ panorama 2.0.5 [458kB]
Fetched 458kB in 1s (253kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package panorama.
(Reading database ... 33295 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking panorama (from .../panorama_2.0.5_armel.deb) ...
Setting up panorama (2.0.5) ...
maemo:~#

Configure the relevant repository and you should be all good to go...

Yes! Your method works. I have Panorama now. Yay. Mark as SOLVED.

However, for the sake of information...

No, we couldn't find it on my friend's phone, not in /var/cache/apt/archives. But I found it on MY phone, and I copied it to a safe place. Yay!


I know backupmenu, I already have it, but it backs up EVERYTHING, doesn't it? That would turn my phone an exact replica of my friend's phone. Not what I want.

Interesting method, pretty much what I expected it would be like, but it doesn't work. The tarball just keeps growing, and growing, and growing... until it runs out of space. It created an 80-something MB tarball here. So I repeated the process piping the result to 'more' and there doesn't seem to be much there. Panorama was definitely not there. I have no idea what happened.