RE: Backup Package names currently installed

["Jochen Daum" <jochen.daum@cans.co.nz>]

> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 10:12, Michael Dominok wrote:
> > dpkg -l |grep --extended-regexp
> --regexp='^[uirph]c|^[uirph]i'|awk {'
> > print $2 "=" $3'} >/tmp/p_list
> I have to correct myself. Just noticed that packages with long names
> could get chopped this way.
> A better way of getting a p_list:
>
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/available |grep --extended-regexp '^Package' |awk
> {'print $2'} >/tmp/p_only
> cat /var/lib/dpkg/available |grep --extended-regexp '^Version' |awk
> {'print $2'} >/tmp/v_only
> paste -d'=' /tmp/p_only /tmp/v_only >/tmp/p_list
>

Awesome!!

Jochen