About to clean-install Fedora 13

[daacosta]

And I need a complete list of my applications... Can I do that on Fedora 12 so that I can copy that list on my email account?

[devils casper]

Create a list of installed packages :

rpm -qa > packages_list

Remove kernel entries from list manually.
Install all packages in one go :

su -
yum -y install $(cat packages_list)

[devils casper]

We need a bit modification here. packages_list will have package name + version number and if you are upgrade Fedora 12 to 13, this list won't do good.
You have to remove version number from each package name.

[daacosta]

Thanks for answering and for your help. It doesn't matter that I have f12 or whatever in the name of the application, I just want to recreate the operating system as it was before. I have managed to upgrade using the dvd preserving everything but some apps are hanging (openoffice... I will figure it out...) What is good about the command is that it also includes the applications that were installed from source.

[Mudgen]

Thanks for answering and for your help. It doesn't matter that I have f12 or whatever in the name of the application, I just want to recreate the operating system as it was before. I have managed to upgrade using the dvd preserving everything but some apps are hanging (openoffice... I will figure it out...) What is good about the command is that it also includes the applications that were installed from source.

rpm -qa will not show apps installed from source, unless they were done by creating rpms for installation (as with src rpms processed with rpmbuild --rebuild).

[robertdaleweir]

I have been looking for a way to do this. Thanks. Install all packages in one go :
Code:

su -
yum -y install $(cat packages_list)

[robertdaleweir]

I have been looking for a way to do this. Thanks. Install all packages in one go :
Code:

su -
yum -y install $(cat packages_list)

To get just the list, without the versions, one can run; as root.

#yum list all | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -u > list-of-installs

You must still remove the 'kernel' items from the list so as not reinstall older kernels. Cheers...

[daacosta]

Everything is set and Fedora 13 is running fine. Some highlights:

* Openoffice.org3 doesn't need to be installed from source in order to use some extensions that I need such as NLP-Solver. I used the repositories and worked OK.
* Python 3's idle is now idle3
* Third party repositories from rpm fusion are fine and I was able to download mp3 support, etc.

For a newbie like me Fedora 13 looks very similar to Fedora 12