Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > May be you should try with > > apt-get -s dselect-upgrade. > > This should list both the new packages to be installed from scratch and the > ones that need to be upgraded > (together with the promise of configuring all > of them).
Thanks Alessandro. Is it also possible to feed that generated list back into apt-get on my work linux box so that the packages can be automatically downloaded to disk for burning on CD-ROM (but *not* installed on the work Linux box?