Re: backup deselections?
On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, David S. Zelinsky wrote:
> I want to back up my choices in deselect on a floppy, so I can later do a
> clean install of the whole system, and install all the same packages without
> having to go through the selection process again.
>
> What's the right way to do this?
dpkg --get-selections > selections # on current
dkpg --set-selections < selections # on new
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