Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 1998 09:02:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [Maybe Off-topic] Production Installations |
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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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