How can i back up my updated & installed packages & give me name of resumble software for installing updates fastly?

Asked by Asif ansari

I had installed ubuntu 12.04 just 5 days ago,while installing i specified the partition with very less disk space for it...In this days i have updated my PC and installed some required packages,so anyhow i want to reinstall UBUNTU otherwise partition 'll go out of space therefore i need to take back up of updated,upgraded and other installed programs.
How can it be done?

And plz provide me some software name in which i can download the updates with resumable capabilty (like IDM forXP)

Thanks.

where did they

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José Antonio Rey (jose) said :
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You can use GParted to resize your partitions. I suggest you defragment the partitions before resizing them. I also warn you that there's a chance data may be lost after the process.

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
#2

How to Resize and defragment the partition?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

Did you install using Wubi or did you resize your NTFS partition to make space for Ubuntu?

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; mount

Thanks

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
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asif@asif-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; df -h; mount
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux asif-desktop 3.2.0-29-generic-pae #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:25:43 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 21G 3.0G 17G 15% /
udev 237M 4.0K 237M 1% /dev
tmpfs 98M 800K 97M 1% /run
none 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
none 244M 80K 244M 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda3 47G 22G 26G 46% /media/Softwares
/dev/sda6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/asif/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=asif)
/dev/sda3 on /media/Softwares type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
asif@asif-desktop:~$

HEY.......i had upgraded packages and copied the upgraded packages from var/cache/archieves but after reinstalling ubuntu how can i install them back

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
#5

I HAD NOT RESIZED PARTITION for installing but i have created new partition for Ubuntu......and i installed it using wubi

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Your system is only using 15%

/dev/sda6 21G 3.0G 17G 15% /

So you have plenty of space to play with. Are you still wanting to remove Ubuntu?

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
#7

NO i dont want anymore space but........I WANT TO REINSTALL UBUNTU 12.04 so plz tell me how to backup the packages and install them after reinstalling.....

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#8

The debs will be in /var/cache/apt/archives unless you have told apt-get to clean them out.

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
#9

Yes they were there, but not installed on my system.....how to unpack them?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#10

Why would you need to unpack them? They can be used to reinstall apps without having to redownload. No unpacking needs to happen in any way

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Asif ansari (asif-ansari4u) said :
#11

Yes reinstalling ...... how it is done

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#12

You can use:

sudo dpkg -i filename.deb or glob using:
sudo dpkg -i *

you can also double click deb and it will install.

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