Re: apt-get question

[Dominik Epple <epple@tphys.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 12:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> > I have an empty /var/cache/apt/archives directory. For building
> > a custom CD, I want to have all packages that are installed on the
> > machine as a file on my computer, e.g. in the /var/cache/apt/archives
> > directory. Can I make apt-get download all the files for me? There
> > must be some magic :)
> > 
> > If not, it will be tediuos to install them all manually or just do
> > a reinstall for this purpose...
> 
> Remove local sources (e.g. CDs/DVDs) from your sources.list, and run
> something like:
> 
> dpkg --get-selections | grep install$ | cut -f1 | xargs apt-get -y \
> --download-only --reinstall install

Thank you!

I was already at "apt-get --download-only", but was not clever enough
not conclude to use the "--reinstall install" stuff to make apt-get
actually download it. Pretty smart, thank you.

Regards, Dominik.

PS. For completeness: "grep install$" also catches "deinstall",
I used the above with an additional "grep -v deinstall$".
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