20+ years ago, Lindows had a great app store that let you create an “aisle” of your favorite apps so if/when you’d reinstall your OS, instead of searching and installing all your apps one-by-one, you’d just go to your aisle, click “install all” and boom.

Is there anything that exists like that today?

  • cpo@beehaw.org
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    2 days ago

    Assuming you are using an apt/dpkg distro:

    Save the list of packages on your reference system:

    dpkg --get-selections > packages.lst

    Then install packages based on that list on your target system, after updating the list of available packages:

    dpkg --merge-avail <(apt-cache dumpavail)
dpkg --clear-selections
dpkg --set-selections < packages.lst
apt-get dselect-upgrade