Looks great and seems to work except for the upgrade. On the second
machine I do the "--set-selections" portion then the update and upgrade.
It says nothing to upgrade, nothing to install. If I edit the file and
remove the trailing install/deinstall then insert an "apt-get install "
at the beginning of each line it does however install quite a few.
Thus spake Shaun Crossley (shaun@whatever.ca):
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> >I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's
> >machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a
> >base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same
> >KDE packages on her machine. Other than "dpkg -l | grep kde > file,
> >copy the file to her machine and apt-get install < file" is there a
> >"better debian way" to do this?
>
> In the past, I've used the following to perform that task:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > myselections (on the source machine)
> dpkg --set-selections < myselections (on the target machine)
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on the target
> machine)
>
> That seemed to work for me. Your mileage may vary!
>
> --
>
> Shaun Crossley
> mailto:shaun@whatever.ca
> http://www.whatever.ca
:wq!
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