Hal Vaughan wrote: > Without doing a chroot (while I know the mobo on the old system > crashed, I'm beginning to suspect drive/OS issues), I could use a > few utils like grep and awk to change a list from > /var/lib/dpkg/status if I needed to, couldn't I? Try this: grep-dctrl -FStatus -sPackage -n "install ok installed" /path/to/old/status That should print out the names of all of the packages listed as installed from that status file. Bob
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