Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 11:19:55PM -0000, McNamee, John wrote:
> How do you use the output from "aptitude search" to re-install the
> packages on the new system?

I just go through aptitude interactive manually.  New versions of
packages may have different depends and recommends.  The list of
_manually_ installed packages isn't really that huge.

For example, on my amd64 box:

	aptitude search '~i!~M' | wc

shows 288 packages, vs 806 just ~i.

Doug.