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Re: Stupid dselect/dpkg question



On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:47:28PM +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't
> find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong
> places...).
> 
> I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages...  I would
> like to re-install from scratch, but would like to save my package
> selection somewhere and use it again without going through all of them
> again.  I'm sure I saw something like this somewhere during the
> installation, but can't seem to find it anymore.

dpkg --get-selections > package.list

<reinstall base system>

dpkg --set-selections < package.list

<run dselect or "apt-get dselect-upgrade">

> BTW:  As a newcomer,  I really am impressed by the meticulously
> carefull way in which the debian distribution seems to be doing
> everything - thanks!

That's great :)

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