*- On 23 Jul, Ralf Mueller wrote about "dselect or apt installation profiles?" > Hello, > > there are preselections for the dselect programm in which several > packages are selected. > > Where are this profiles and how can I manipulate them that I can define > my own 'preselections' beacause I whant to install identical debians on > several machines and don't want to run the dselect-procedure every time. > > thank you very much >
The initial profiles are only available when you first install the system. Using those profiles after you have a system installed it can cause serious problems with dependencies and conflicts. The proper way it to set up one machine with all the packages you want. Then on that machine issue the command: dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/selections.list Then install the base system as usual on the other machines without choosing any preset profiles. Then copy that selections.list file to the new machine and issue: dpkg --set-selections < selections.list This will select all the same packages. Then just issue apt-get dselect-upgrade or start dselect and select Install. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
