On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 08:47:01AM +1100, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote:
>Magnus Therning wrote:
>
>>On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:39:01AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>
>>><snip> Where is the list of installed packages kept on
>>>these systems, if I can store a list I can make a script out of it and
>>>more quickly return to where I was if a cd reinstall is necessary using
>>>that script to download the missing packages? <snip>
>>>
>><snip>
>>% dpkg -l > packages.txt
>>
>Wouldn't dpkg --get-selections be better for this?
Much better! I learnt something from this thread too ;-)
/M
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