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Re: Why is there no tool to make an identical installation on several PCs - or is there



On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 13:19, Guido Hamacher wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am looking for a tool that allows me to do an identical installation - 
> packagewise - on two copmuters (or more). One ist already installed and 
> running, the other has only a small installation of Woody running. Now I 
> would like the second computer to have the very same packages installed 
> as are on the first one. Since there is only a connection via the 
> internet between those two computers I do not want to rsync or whatever. 
> I would like only to fetch a list of all the packages installed on 
> number one and "reinstall" them on computer two. Something like 'apt-get 
> install --from-file list-of-installed-packages-on-computer1.txt' on 
> computer 2 would be great ;-)


man dpkg

you want --get-selection/--set-selection and apt-get dselect-upgrade

hth
cheers
-- vbi

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