Reinstalling your Ubuntu in one hour
When you install lot of experimental stuffs and upgrade often during the development process, your system can become a really "strange place", with lot of compiled things everywhere. Once in a while, you want to clean things to be able to make good bugs reports.
Ubuntu is now so easy to reinstalling the system will take you, all in all, one hour ! In fact, the only problem that left is to know what packages you want to install.
Following the suggestion of Cassidy, I now keep one huge text file with the list of package I want on my system. In fact, it's really easy to have. I also maintain another text file which is the list of all packages I want to see on a new Ubuntu computer I install[2].
As I don't really like having unofficial repositories, I just keep unofficial .deb I need in a folder. Reinstalling my system is then just a matter of reinstalling the / partition and then :
sudo apt-get install `cat packages.txt`
sudo dpkg -i debs/*.deb
Of course, you also have to be careful to NOT format your /home/
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