If I need to reinstall a Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux OS (or mirror a software selection to another machine), this is how it can be done. On the source machine:
su
dpkg --get-selections > ~/Package.list
cp -R /etc/apt/sources.list* ~/
apt-key exportall > ~/repository.keys
Then just copy the files to the target machine:
Search for packages containing the word emacs in their name or description:
apt-cache search emacs
Install package emacs21:
apt-get install emacs21
Remove package wine including all configuration files:
apt-get remove --purge wine
Reinstall a package:
apt-get --reinstall install wine
Sometimes, you need to use dpkg to reconfigure a package, e.g. here the bittorrent sync package:
dpkg-reconfigure btsync
I am trying to get Ubuntu 5.04 or Debian 3.1 running on the original PB G3 (aka Kanga aka 3500). The only problem: the screen is blank after the inital reboot after the installation. Nothing at all (Ubuntu) or only an inverted penguin (Debian). The boot process continues only if one copies over the ramdisk image from the /boot folder onto the HFS partition and specifies it as boot argument. Might it be that the root=/dev/hda8 (in my case the root partition is hda8) is somehow not recognized?