Stash your cache
Here’s the deal: I reinstall once, sometimes twice or even three times a week. Why? Well, that’s beside the point. Sometimes I break something, but sometimes I just feel like it. Never mind that. What I want to suggest is that, if you’re like me, you can save yourself a little bandwidth and a lot of time downloading if you take the time to copy your apt cache before you erase your drive.
Aptitude (and apt-get and some of those funky little utilities) keep all the packages they downloaded in /var/cache/apt/archives. So the next time you install something chunky, like xorg for example, don’t clean it out with aptitude clean.
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