Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and install it on another machine?
On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:35, Andrew Pritchard wrote:
> I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto
> another machine - how do I go about doing this?
>
> I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's
> got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've
> filtered out. How can I get apt to recognise the contents of the file as
> being a list of packages to install? Is there a better tool for the job?
Source machine:
dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/some-file.txt
Dest machine:
dpkg --put-selections < /tmp/some-file.txt
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