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apt-clone
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mvo5 / apt-clone

apt-clone

Create a "state" file for Debian/Ubuntu systems with the installed packages (and the aility to restore)

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
100GitHub stars
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What it is

Create a "state" file for Debian/Ubuntu systems with the installed packages (and the aility to restore)

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Observed mentions: 2020-04-29 17:28:46 UTC to 2023-04-20 21:20:28 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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It's nice to see people sharing - but this seems like a terrible way to install the needed packages, with a separate install per package, rather than a list of packages.. https://github.com/efazati/i3buntu/blob/master/run.sh Something like: https://wiki.debian.org/AptCLI?highlight=%28%5CbCategoryPack... apt-clone: https://github.com/mvo5/apt-clone Or indeed like it's done here, but supplying a list of packets to apt, rather than a list of apt command lines to run one after another... But the best way would probably just be a fork of regolith, and create a meta package.
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