Charlie Grosvenor <charliemail@cgrosvenor.co.uk> [2002-08-25 09:39:37 +0100]: > Is there anyway of extracting the list of packages installed on > a machine in a format that you can then easily go and install all the > packages on another machine? If it is possible to extract the list how > can I get the other machine to install the packages on the list? This is becoming an FAQ. In the last few days this seems to be something that everyone is asking about. The general answer has been something similar to this. dpkg --get-selections > packagelist dpkg --set-selections < packagelist apt-get --dselect-upgrade And then to answer further quesions about more general installation on many machines I will paste from Christian Heimke who just wrote the following which summarized many others (myself included). > - FAI > - http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ > - System Imager > - http://systemimager.org/ > - Partition Image > - http://www.partimage.org/ Bob
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