High, On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Chris Palmer wrote:
> Hi, guys... > > I've been running debian for years, but only on a couple > machines until recently. Now, I'm setting up a new machine > to replace one of my other machines and wanted to clone the > choices for packages to have installed and then have apt-get > get everything downloaded and installed for me the way I > have it on the other machine. > > I've found some files under /var/lib/dpkg that contain > status of packages, but I don't think I'm fully on the > right track. > > I've used both dselect and apt-get and am leaning towards > using apt-get for all my package needs these days. > > Any advice on how I can do this would be great, as it would > be a pain to go through the packages one-by-one and flag > them (in dselect)... :) > I do not know if will work, but this is the idea: On the source computer: dpkg --get-selections > source On the destination computer (after you copied the file 'source' to it ;-)): cat source | dpgk --set-selections The I think you should run 'apt-get -f install' to install the uninstalled packages. But you still have to configure them one by one. Greetz, Sebastiaan
