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Re: keeping package selection with new install



On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 19:29 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:

> The list generated by aptitude that way is not ready for use in
> reinstallation (because of the status and description), but you can get
> only a list of names with
> $ aptitude search '~i!~M' | awk '{print $2}'
> 
> (and other dozens of ways, probably more efficient ;-) ).

Not sure if it is more efficient.

aptitude -F '%p' search '~i!~M'

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