On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 12:47:28PM +0200, Iwan Vosloo wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to debian (coming from RH) and have a stupid question I can't > find the answer to (probably because I'm looking in the wrong > places...). > > I have installed slink and spent hours to choose packages... I would > like to re-install from scratch, but would like to save my package > selection somewhere and use it again without going through all of them > again. I'm sure I saw something like this somewhere during the > installation, but can't seem to find it anymore.
dpkg --get-selections > package.list <reinstall base system> dpkg --set-selections < package.list <run dselect or "apt-get dselect-upgrade"> > BTW: As a newcomer, I really am impressed by the meticulously > carefull way in which the debian distribution seems to be doing > everything - thanks! That's great :) -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
