On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 19:45:06 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > I just > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' This might work directly: aptitude -F '%pinstall' search '!~M~i' Some cleanup could be nice, though: aptitude -F '%pinstall' search '!~M~i' | sed 's/ \+/ /' -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |