How can I restore all the packages I have installed?

asked 2014-12-23 04:05:32 -0500

skamath
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updated 2014-12-23 12:10:11 -0500

mether
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Hi,

I am a Fedora 20 user. I was trying to install the unofficial AMD Radeon graphic drivers and I have crashed my GUI. I am able to login through tty. I tried to replace GNOME with KDE and which screwed my laptop more. I logged in via Ubuntu and copied the entire root partition (home is in the same partition) into an external hard drive. How can I restore my apps after doing a fresh install of Fedora 20?

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answered 2014-12-23 08:29:02 -0500

lupinix

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updated 2014-12-23 12:12:48 -0500

You can get a list of all installed packages using rpm -qa > packagelist.txt and feed it to yum on your new installation.

EDIT: rpm -qa --queryformat='%{NAME}\n' > packagelist.txt to get a list without versions

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That would show packages with their version and release info, which often won't work if the package has been updated. Maybe update with a "--queryformat" argument for rpm ?

randomuser ( 2014-12-23 08:44:01 -0500 )edit

@randomuser, Can you tell me how to do that?

skamath ( 2014-12-25 11:48:16 -0500 )edit

Thank you. This worked :)

skamath ( 2014-12-29 04:09:51 -0500 )edit

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answered 2016-02-10 09:40:34 -0500

florian
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Just in case , with "I installed" (title) you mean the packages that you manually installed on top of the default packages that come with your Desktop Environment:

sudo dnf history userinstalled > userinstalled-packagelist.txt

creates a text file to be included in a backup.

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