Mark Burgess wrote:
> A good topic for the debain FAQ would be the answer to the following
> question. Perhaps someone would be kind enough to mail me their answer
> to this also.
>
> I want to create a standard list of packages which I will then install
> on 50 machines without having to go into dselect and choose them
> by hand. i.e. I want to to make a bunch of clones from the the sources.
>
> I need a template list for the packages in my set-up.
>
> How can I do this? Is is obvious?
Quite easy.
Install one system.
dpkg --get-selections > file
On the remaining 49 machines you type
cat file |dpkg --set-selections
before you call dselect.
After that, just install.
I believe you can easily integrate this list into the pre-selection
list of distributions at the end of the initial installation.
Regards,
Joey
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