[Blackpool] Laptop Rebuild

[Les Pounder]

Hi Jon, I'd love to hear more about it, and hopefully we can both get to the
bottom of the Evolution issue.

just a quick aside, I found a great tip in this months Linux Format.

You can use dpkg to list all of the apps installed on your machine, then
send the list to a file, then for future rebuilds you can use the list as
the input for a dpkg command.

the command to create the list is

dpkg --get-selections > dpkg.txt

this runs the command and dumps the output to a file called dpkg.txt

How handy is that!!

Les

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Jon Chamberlain
<jonachamberlain at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Finally had enough of my laptop running slowly, and (after a great LUG
> meeting), rebuilt it over the weekend using Ubuntu 10.10.
>
> Went very well actually - the 'secret sauce' was to backup everything in
> the home folder, rather than trying to be selective. The laptop so now
> very responsive again - so I am well pleased. I did have to install a
> large number of applications on top of the base install (including
> WINE), but that was relatively painless using the Ubuntu 'App
> Marketplace' ;-) As they say, YMMV
>
> One thing that surprised me was that I still had to manually
> re-instigate my email accounts, todos, memo's and calendars in
> Evolution, although the mail itself was all there after the restore.
>
> If anyone is interested in the gory details, just ask or grab me at the
> next meeting.
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
>
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