Re: dpkg database rebuild

[Matej Cepl <ceplm@seznam.cz>]

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg
> database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages
> installed ?

What about

dpkg --get-selections
dpkg --set-selections

RTFM, dpkg(1)

Or you can use (which is my preferred way):

aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt

Then simple editing of installed.txt will make you script to install the
same packages on new computer.

Best,

Matej

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