How to backup/restore your linux packages in Ubuntu 18.10
If you need migrate your packages to another computer, the best choice is to restore the packages to avoid install all of them again manually. I'm going to describe three tools that I test to do it. apt-clone is a tool for backup all your packages installed through apt. To install it just execute: sudo apt install apt-clone sudo apt-clone clone path_to_save_backup Now, to restore the packages, just copy this file in your new station and execute the following: sudo apt-clone restore apt-clone-state-*.tar.gz It works very well, but some times you can get this error: Deja-dup is other tool to make backups and restore your packages. When I run it, I got this message: InvalidBackendURL: missing // - relative paths not supported for scheme invalid: invalid:// This bug was reported here 2 years ago, but still is not totally fixed Aptik is tyhe most functional tool with GUI. To install it just execute: sudo apt-add-repository -y ppa:teejee2008/ppa sudo apt-ge...