Re: "Save the list of installed packages and load it"

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:11:30AM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Marcos Guglielmetti wrote:
> > what do you mean with "Save the list of installed packages and load it into your new Debian Live 
> > System"
> 
> dpkg --get-selections > config/chroot_local-packageslists/$(hostname -f)

This seems to include automatically-selected packages. Maybe something
along the lines of:

  aptitude search -F '%p install' '~i !~M'

Or a bit more clearly:

  aptitude search -F '%p install' '?installed !?automatic'

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