on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:26:46PM +1300, Jochen Daum (jochen.daum@cans.co.nz) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a debian woody machine which I installed via FTP.
>
> I would like to dump the names of all installed packages into a file,
> so that I can install them automatically with dpkg.
>
> I tried
>
> dpkg --get-selections
>
> but the file doesn't contain any package versions? Can I include that
> as well?
While you can, it doesn't do you much good.
APT installs the latest available version of a package (subject to your
preferred release and pinning options).
However, one possible hint:
$ dpkg-awk Package:.*libk[l-r].* Status:' installed' -- Package Version
Peace.
--
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
The revolution will not be televised.
You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http://www.debian.org/
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