On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:35:08AM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's > machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a > base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same > KDE packages on her machine. Other than "dpkg -l | grep kde > file, > copy the file to her machine and apt-get install < file" is there a > "better debian way" to do this?
If you were to use "dpkg -l", you would have to reformat the file before
it could be used. This isn't totally reliable as some non-KDE packages
start with the letter 'k', but some KDE packages start with 'k' instead
of "kde".
On your machine:
dpkg --get-selections | grep ^k | awk '{ if ($2 == "install") print $1 }' > file
Edit file and remove non-KDE packages like kernel-images
On her machine:
apt-get install `cat file`
If you were to use your "apt-get install < file", the contents of the
file would be stdin instead of being on the command line.
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Seneca
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