[olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later.

[Aric Aasgaard]

InstallRite for Windows was good stuff I used it to make installers for old DOS laboratory programs that came on floppy disks.  It was also a sneaky way to circumvent copy protection because you could snapshot it before and after you registered and see the difference. ..........Yeah I'd also like an easy way to do that in Linux.

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From: Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> 
Date: 02/03/2015  3:31 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: [olug] Watching installs to reproduce/replicate later. 
 
Many years ago on Windows there was a tool I could use to take a snapshot
of a computer, then I could install programs, edit files, update the
registry, reboot, etc, and the next time I ran that snapshot tool it would
save a file that summarized all the changes performed.  From there it was
possible to replicate that install to other compatible Windows systems by
"replaying" that summary file.

Can anyone point me to a similar tool on the Linux side (RHEL/CentOS)?

Thanks,
DanL

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