Re: nifty dselect trick?

To: matthew@sel.cam.ac.uk
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: nifty dselect trick?
From: Nathan E Norman <finn@midco.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:05:40 -0500 (CDT)
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On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

 : 
 : Is there any way I can take a dselect archive (where is it) from one
 : machine and feed it to another in order to install exactly the same
 : packages?

dselect is a front end to dpkg.

box1:~ $ dpkg --get-selections > pkglist
box2:~ # dpkg --set-selections < pkglist

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