Re: apt: exporting and importing list of installed packages
Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> writes:
>> > Is there a way to dump my current selection to a file and read it back
>> > later? I didn't find such an option in aptitude or any of the other
>> > tools.
>
> dpkg --get-selections > <filename>
Ok, this gives me a list of packages like "<package> install" for
installed packages, "<package> deinstall" for packages marked 'c' in
aptitude (which I have purged now). Packages marked 'A' in aptitude
simply seem to not be in the list (they should get fetched
automatically anyway).
> dpkg --set-selections < <filename>
It is not quite clear to me from the man-page what would happen to
already installed packages. I suppose that set-selections only
affects those packages that are actually in the list.
I would then possibly need to make a diff between my wanted list and
the actual result of `dpkg --get-selections` after installation.
Thanks (to everybody else who answered, too).
Ciao,
Jens
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