Howto: save "list of installed packages"

[Martiini]

how do I save installed packages in a list and restore ...

rpm -qa > installed-software.log
yum install $(cat installed-software.log)

sorting rpm packages by size
rpm -qa --qf '%{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -n

Hello, and Welcome to Fedoraforum.org,

This should work just fine.

rpm -qa > installed-software

or in alphabetical order:

rpm -qa|sort > installed-software

Hope this helps,

Ky

[Dangermouse]

Also another way if you want to make a kickstart file for installing with or making a livecd..(assuming you have system-config-kickstart installed)

system-config-kickstart --generate current.ks

[BugRocks1]

Fedora 12 Backup installed software


To make the txt with your files:

rpm -qa | sort > /home/[user]/Desktop/installed-software.log

To reinstall everything from the txt:

yum -y install $(cat /home/[user]/Desktop/installed-software.log)

To download all the packages without installing anything(to make a local repository perhaps)

yumdownloader $(cat /home/[user]/Desktop/installed-software.log) --destdir="/home/[user]/Desktop/local_repository"

Addition:

To restore your configurations too you need to backup the /etc folder and maybe also the user folder. I don't really know because I don't care that much about the configuration files.

[kkshethin]

i have installed yum-plugin-local to keep copies of downloaded/installed packages. The directory is /var/lib/yum/plugin/local. It contains all rpm packages (along-with different versions).

I want to copy only latest packages from that directory. How to do that?