On Sat, 6 May 2023 14:54:54 +0100
Antony Stone <Antony.Stone@???> wrote:

> On Saturday 06 May 2023 at 14:45:15, Fred wrote:
>
> > On 5/5/23 11:16, Antony Stone wrote:
> > > On Friday 05 May 2023 at 17:54:37, Fred wrote:
> > >> I want to migrate from Beowulf x86 to amd64 and later to Chimaera.
> > >
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading
> > >
> > >
> > > Antony.
> >
> > This looks like a major can of worms with lots of things that can go
> > wrong. I would probably be better off just doing a fresh install of
> > Chimaera.
>
> I completely agree :)
>
> Bear in mind that you can extract a list of the currently installed packages
> in order to help you get the same things set up on a new machine.
>
> Any of the following commands will give you a list of what's currently
> installed:
>
> # dpkg-query -l
> # apt list --installed
> # aptitude search ~i
>
> You can also use:
>
> # dpkg --get-selections
>
> to produce a list in the correct format for later piping into:
>
> # dpkg --set-selections
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Antony.
>

Hi,
also a backup copy of /etc is useful to preserve any custom configuration files you have.

Ciao,
Tito