On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:02:36AM -0800, Shaun Crossley wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 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? > > In the past, I've used the following to perform that task: > > dpkg --get-selections > myselections (on the source machine) > dpkg --set-selections < myselections (on the target machine) > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on the target > machine)
I think you must mean 'apt-get dselect-upgrade'; 'apt-get upgrade' will only update installed packages, it explicitly does no install or remove packages. -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/
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