On 3 July 2013 21:06, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did something similar using aptitude: > > aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!M' >package_list > aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) Sorry, there is a typo error above. It should be: aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' >package_list aptitude -R install $(cat package_list)