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Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer



On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:10:46PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the
> same package list currently installed.
> 
> Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some
> extent with dpkg but that looses the automatically installed flag).
> 

Use `dpkg --get-selections >somefile.txt` on the configured machine.
Then do `dpkg --set-selections <somefile.txt` on the target.  Obviously,
you need to get somefile.txt to the target.

Regards,

-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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