Re: What is the difference?
On 2011-03-09 21:03 +0100, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
>> Since this is no longer possible, you should run
>> "dpkg --clear-selections" prior to "dpkg --set-selections" to replicate
>> an installation on another computer.
>
> Yeah, this is a good advice. I will do this, and play a little bit around with
> this.
I should also warn that this method will lose apt's extended states,
e.g. the information which packages were automatically installed. You
can obtain a list of those packages with "apt-mark showauto" if python
is installed.
Sven
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