If you’ve ever reinstalled Ubuntu, you know the pain of setting everything up again, such as finding apps, adding PPAs, and reinstalling software one by one.
Back in the day, tools like Aptik helped automate this, but since Aptik is no longer maintained, you don’t need to rely on it, Ubuntu already comes with the dpkg package manager, which can handle the job on its own.
In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to back up your installed packages and restore them later using dpkg commands.