Re: --set-selections - help needed to use this

[Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 12 October 2010 14:00:10 Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from Lisi's message of Tue Oct 12 13:05:50 +0200 2010:
> > #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt
> > #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
>
> FWIW, this is what I used (based on [1]):
>
>
> dpkg --clear-selections
> dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections-installed.state
> debconf-set-selections < debconf.state
> xargs -r -- aptitude markauto -y --schedule-only <
> autoinstalled-packages.list aptitude install -y
>
>
> Sascha
>
> [1]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/aptitude-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg00329
>.html --
> http://sascha.silbe.org/
> http://www.infra-silbe.de/

Thanks, Sascha.  It is no longer viable to go back to the original machine in 
this particular case - but I shall keep this info for next time!

Lisi