On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Aaron Peters <acpkendo@yahoo.com> wrote: > I seem to recall seeing once that one of the package > tools (dpkg, apt, or another, I don't remember) could > save a package list that could later be piped as input > to return a system to an identical list of packages > with one command. Am I crazy, and if not, how is this > done? No, not crazy at all. It's a very useful feature. "dpkg --get-selections >& /file/to/output.txt" "cat /file/to/output.txt | dpkg --set-selections" "apt-get upgrade" (man dpkg for more information.) HTH & HAND, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #12: Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste.
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