Re: HOW DO I: Copy the package list from one machine, and install it on another machine?

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Mark Janssen wrote:
> 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

--put-selections doesn't seem to be in the man page.
There's a --set-selections, but it says that does
nothing to actually do installing.