Re: how to get package list
On Saturday 12 August 2006 10:34 am, Jabka Atu wrote:
> H0wdy...
>
> i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the
> progs (i need only the package list).
"dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > /path/to/output/dpkg-filelist"
Sample output looks like :
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
Name
a2ps
a52dec
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