MaD dUCK wrote: > hi, is there a way to save the selection of packages (independent of > version numbers) that exist on the system so that the same set of > programs can be conveniently restored or installed on another machine? > > sure, i can parse dpkg -l into perl and do my thing that way, but > that's a feature a package management system like dpkg/dselect ought > to have. even crappy-suse comes with that... (redhat doesn't though).
You can issue 'dpkg --get-selections > <filename_here>' to get a list of the
current package status. Then later something like 'dpkg --set-selections
< <filename_here>' will tell the system what to install.
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