Re: dpkg --get-selections question
Maria Rodriguez said:
> Hi,
>
> I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab.
> I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if
> there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no
> programmer and can't script worth a darn, so does anyone have any
> suggestions on how to go about doing such a thing?
>
> After that, I figured I could do something along the lines of 'apt-get
> install `cat packages.txt`' or something to get all of the packages to be
> the same on both computers.
dpkg --get-selections >selections
dpkg --set-selections <selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade
thats what I do, theres another method, similar, has an extra argument
in the dpkg command, but I forget what it was(check the archives)
nate
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