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Is there a program that I can run before I reinstall Mageia 3 to show which programs I have already installed? So once I have reinstalled I can easily reinstall all the software that I have been using, I have lots.

for that job I use

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rpm -qa

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rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}\n' | sort

Will list everything you have installed.
If you pipe that to a text file you can use a script like

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urpmi.update -a
while read line; do
   urpmi --auto $line
done < YOUR-FILE

to re-install most all the MGA2 packages that you had with the MGA3 equivalents.

Thank you Ken, this is what I need. I am already with Mageia 3 but I need to increase my root drive, I play around with too many programs so the 12gb is too small so I am going to reinstall Mageia 3 so i can increase my root. Lucky I have a son not far from finishing a Degree with a double major in networking and security. He was able to show me how to make the script and how to run it. Just like a batch file from my old days.