Re: Why is there no tool to make an identical installation on several PCs - or is there
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 01:19:44PM +0200, 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 ;-)
>
> Since I was not able to find something suitable ... maybe someone of you
> has an idea.
>
Something like
dpkg --get-selections > packages.text
on the machine with all the packages you want. Then move the
packages.text file to the other computer with only the small
installation and run
dpkg --set-selections < packages.text
apt-get update (or something else which will cause dpkg to install all
the pending packages)
--
Janne Blomqvist
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