Hi, I'm new to the dselect/apt-get/... tools, (I just got Debian 2.2 installed last night and have not had time yet to play with/learn these new tools). I'm guessing that the output of 'apt-get -s' is a simple list of file names (no extras, like size, in additional columns). If so, the following would also work, and may be easier than editing, etc. You need to be running bash or ksh for this to work. The $(<filename) is a quick way to get the shell to open a file and substitute its contents on the command line. So you would do these two commands, on your separate systems:
$ apt-get -s dselect-upgrade > list $ apt-get -d install $(<list) If for some reason you don't have bash/ksh, use this for the second line: $ apt-get -d install `cat list` # the quotes are back quotes, NOT apostrophes/single quotes The only issue with this is if the content of the file exceeds the command line buffer size, not an issue with bash and ksh, so far as I've found. Alessandro Ghigi wrote: > > 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? > > What Tal says > > apt-get -d install [files] > will download, but not install. > > is perfect. But you need to put 70 files in the [ ... ]. > I would use > > apt-get -s dselect-upgrade > list > > to put the write the output of the command in the file list. > Then you have to edit the file list in such a way that it looks like this > > #!/bin/bash > > apt-get -d install 1st new package to install > > .... this for all such packages > > apt-get -d upgrade 1st old package to be upgraded > > .... the same for all such packages. > > You can do this editing job quite quickly if you use emacs. > > Then you save all this text in a file called tentative-script in a directory > where you have space enough for all the packages. > Go in this directory and do > > source tentative-scripte. > > This should download the files .deb in the directory. > > There is probably some much better way of doing it, but I am just a newbie. > > Good luck > > Alessandro > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software [EMAIL PROTECTED]
