On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 03:14:01PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > frits wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have a rather old PC running Etch just the way I want it. > >Om my new PC I want to instal Lenny, and with the same set of > >packages I have on Etch. Is there a trick to transport my > >installed package list in a clever way? > > > Frits: > get the source.list names for any special repos (mulitmedia comes to mind) > dpkg --get-selections >filename grep "\binstall\b" filename >filename2 > transfer filename2 over. > modify /etc/apt/sources.list > dpkg --set-selections < filename2 > apt-get -u upgrade-dselect > > watch the magic happen.
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