Re: Exportings Installed Software List
On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:24, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On 07 Apr 2003 12:10:28 -0400
> Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 11:15, David Meiser wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to install debian on a second machine and would like to
> > > export the installed package list... I was walked through it before
> > > using dpkg, but I can't remember how.
> > >
> > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt
> > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt
> > apt-get -u dist-upgrade
>
> I believe the last step should be "apt-get dselect-upgrade".
Ive done it with dist-upgrade. Also on a side note, I miss the old
behavior of dselect-upgrade that would bring down the recommends(or is
that suggests) which made bringing a system into a useable state without
tasksel alot easier.
--
Scott Henson <debian-list@silvercoin.dyndns.org>
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