Re: dpkg database rebuild
> Matej Cepl wrote:
>
>> 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.
OK, so looking at it, you don't even need to make a script:
aptitude install `cat installed.txt`
Nice, Matej. I think I'll just cron that command on a weekly basis.
--
derek
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