Re: [Maybe Off-topic] Production Installations

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:02:56 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote:

>> which is being marketed and known as a 'new-user distribution'. You can
>> select packages and save your package selection in a file which can be saved
>> on floppy (or elsewhere) and reloaded at will. They provide you with about
>>
>> I'd LOVE to see something like this in Debian 2.1 ... something like "dpkg
>> --listpackages > packages.list" and "dpkg --installpackages < packages.list"
>> or whatever. But thats for the debian mailing list :)

dpkg --get-selections >/tmp/pkg.lst
dpkg --set-selections </tmp/pkg.lst
dselect (update and install)

I never tried it (I installed my debian from scratch only 1 time 2/3
years ago) but should do what you need.

Andrea Arcangeli

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