Debian & Ubuntu style

get installed packages:

dpkg --get-selections > dpkgselections

set & install packages from file:

dpkg --set-selections < dpkgselections

dselect update   # fixes packages not found in db errors
apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

# or:
aptitude install

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768073

Workaround:

Sources List:

deb http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates main contrib non-free

'Secure' Update:

apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false update
apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false upgrade

wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/lz4/liblz4-1_0.0~r131-2+b1_amd64.deb
dpkg -i liblz4-1_0.0~r131-2+b1_amd64.deb
rm -f liblz4-1_0.0~r131-2+b1_amd64.deb

apt install apt apt-transport-https apt-utils libapt-pkg5.0 libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0

apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false upgrade

date

date --set 1998-11-02 
date --set 21:08:0

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales
locale

If you still get “unable to set locale, falling back to the default locale”, try this:

export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
locale-gen en_US.UTF-8