Re: Multiple installation question.

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 20 Aug, Miguel A. Figueroa wrote about "Multiple installation question."
> Hello all,
> 
> First, Debian kicks a**!!
> Second, is there a deselect command that will give me a list of packages
> that I can then use it to install an identical box using apt/deselect? I
> know that RedHat has a quick installation type utility and I was
> wondering if Debian has something similar. This way a base installation
> can be done on the box and then tell dselect that these are the packages
> I want without intervention from the user.


Box A:  dpkg --get-selections > package-list.txt
Box B:  dpkg --set-selections < package-list.txt

Start dselect and configure the [A]ccess method and [U]pdate, then skip
straight to the [I]nstall.

You will still have to answer all the configure questions from all the
individual packages though.  A solution to this is being worked on by a
few developers I think.

-- 
Brian 
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