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Re: Moving Package List



On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 14:57, Sam Halliday wrote:
> i have a machine running Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable with a package list i
> am very happy with. i would like to move this configuration to another machine
> which i am performing a fresh install on. how can i get a list of all the
> packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one?

Old machine: dpkg --get-selections > myselections

copy 'myselections' over to new machine

New machine: dpkg --set-selections < myselections

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