I just upgraded from 9.10 32 bit to 10.04 32 bit.
First time I have had a seamless upgrade. Getting better.
However, this upgrade is only a temporary fix. What I really want in the near future, is to upgrade to 64 bit and reformat my root partition to ext4 from ext3.
I am really, really holding back because I have a fair number (more than 2 ) of packages that are not in the standard distribution on the Live-CD. Some of them I readily know like Sun's VirtualBox and some I have absolutely no notion of the name of the package, like that little one that sits on the desktop and shows the current weather at a location I have set.
So before I upgrade to 64 bit, I need some way of storing a list or something of the packages I have installed which I can then use to install desired packages after the upgrade. Maybe all of the currently installed packages that are not on the Live-CD.
Is there any way of accomplishing this? An automated process would be the best.
First time I have had a seamless upgrade. Getting better.
However, this upgrade is only a temporary fix. What I really want in the near future, is to upgrade to 64 bit and reformat my root partition to ext4 from ext3.
I am really, really holding back because I have a fair number (more than 2 ) of packages that are not in the standard distribution on the Live-CD. Some of them I readily know like Sun's VirtualBox and some I have absolutely no notion of the name of the package, like that little one that sits on the desktop and shows the current weather at a location I have set.
So before I upgrade to 64 bit, I need some way of storing a list or something of the packages I have installed which I can then use to install desired packages after the upgrade. Maybe all of the currently installed packages that are not on the Live-CD.
Is there any way of accomplishing this? An automated process would be the best.
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