RE: Moving "setup" from one computer to another?
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> From: Erik Persson [mailto:erik-maillist@djingis.se]
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 1:34 AM
> To: Debian Mailing List
> Subject: Moving "setup" from one computer to another?
>
> Hello!
>
> I have a server running sarge.
> Now I want to install another computer with debian sarge and
> the same packages as the first one.
>
> How do I do this the easiest way?
> That is, how do I generate a list of installed packages from
> the runing server that I can use in an automatic way to
> install packages on the new computer and how do I do it?
>
> I found this at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> To make a local copy of the package selection states:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections "*" >myselections # or use \*
>
> "*" makes myselections include package entries for "purge" too.
>
> You can transfer this file to another computer, and install
> it there with:
>
> # dselect update
> # dpkg --set-selections <myselections
> # apt-get -u dselect-upgrade # or dselect install
This is the easiest way AFAIK. The problem is that it doesn't copy the "auto"
state of packages (packages installed automatically as opposed to explicitly)
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>
> Is this the way to go, especially since:
> "In stable releases up to and including Potato, dselect was
> the principal package maintenance tool. For Sarge, you should
> consider using aptitude instead." etc
>
I don't know of a way to do this that easily with aptitude. What you can do is
aptitude search ~i to get a list of installed packages, it will also give the
state (auto or not), but I don't know of a way to feed it back into aptitude
directly (you can write a sed+shell script to do it).
> Thanks for any help!
>
> /ep
>
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