On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:22 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -0000, McNamee, John wrote: > > > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now > > > I'd like to install it on a production server. What's the best way to > > > get the list of packages installed on the test system, and then > > > re-install those packages on the new system? > > > > aptitude search "~i" will give you a list of your installed packages. > > This will probably be a lot though, and will take a long time to install > > them on the other computer. > > #aptitude search '~i!~M' > > This shows only the packages installed (~i) but not automatically (!~M), > in other words, the packages that I specifically installed. I use these two commands so that I can still restore the same package list even if I don't use some of the recommended dependencies (for example, powersaved recommends kpowersave). I have never attempted to restore from these though. aptitude -F "%p" search ~i\!~M >| /var/backups/aptitude-i aptitude -F "%p" search ~i~M >| /var/backups/aptitude-ai What about the backup that aptitude does? /var/backups/aptitude.pkgstates.0 Is there some way to restore from that? Say, copy it to: /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
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