On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 17:02 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > aptitude install $(cat non-Debian.pkgs) So the OP will keep some packages as they are, without updating? Ok, but the OP should be aware, that dependencies might be broken and in the end the above command + updating Debian packages doesn't result in anything different than "dpkg --set-selections < list.txt" does ;).