I have installed a number of packages with much pain. (I've a slow internet connection)
Now I want to reinstall Ubuntu (I use 10.10), but I don't want to download all the packages again. I have burned a disk containing all these packages (with APTonCD, which I think don't solve dependency headache.)
Is there any easy way to override manual dependency solving? (Even though there is, I would like to know how to do it manually.)
Can I back up system configuration?
Thank you.
apt
normally handles dependency resolution, but there should be options for allow installation of packages in a broken state. Or else you could usedpkg
itself.