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If I have these locations all on separate partitions:
How can I remove Ubuntu (for example) and install Mint and lose no data? How would I preserve installed packages across the move?
jdersen
Posted 2014-05-13T04:19:16.643
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in my opinion, a safer way to achieve that would be to backup those directories and then re-install with the distribution of your choice.
If you want to backup your installed package list for re-installation later, you could try something like:
dpkg --get-selections > ~/Package.list
and then to restore the list later (on a debian based distro):
dpkg --set-selections < ~/Package.list
deselect
see https://askubuntu.com/questions/9135/best-way-to-backup-all-settings-list-of-installed-packages-tweaks-etc for more ideas.
Jason Lewis
Posted 2014-05-13T04:19:16.643
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I can't imagine it's a good idea to try this - you might get away with it since Mint is so similar to Ubuntu, but I would not be surprised if you ended up with a broken system. You can certainly preserve your data (as in, everything in /home), but expecting installed packages to work is probably unrealistic. – user55325 – 2014-05-13T05:10:24.843