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Re: backup vs package manager



On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 03:58:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Yes.
> 
>    dpkg --get-selections > file  # save package settings.
>    dpkg --set-selections < file  # set package settings.

Once you've done that, is there a way to simply tell the system to
install, uninstall, upgrade, whatever, to exactly what the current
package selection settings are?

Thanks,

Mike

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