Re: Replicating a system... sort of
Paul M Foster said:
> I'm attempting to set up a replacement system for the one on my desk.
> (When done, I'll swap them out.) This gets awfully tedious when I have to
> pick every package in dselect. My current desktop is a Woody, but the
> system I'm setting up is testing.
>
> I have a list of packages that I put on every system I run, for example:
> lynx, hextype, units, remind, links, nosql3, sqlite, etc. I'd like to be
> able to install a base system, put these package names in some text file,
> point dselect/apt (or something else) at it, and have them
> downloaded and configed as usual. Is there a package that does this?
on old machine:
dpkg --get-selections >selections
copy selections to new machine
dpkg --set-selections <selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
bingo :)
nate
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