This is great. Thanks!
One question: This seems to loose the "automatically installed"
information kept by aptitude. Is there a way to do it that preserves
aptitude's "automatic" attribute?
Enjoy!
Rick
On Apr 29, 2008, at 3:14 PM, 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?
Thanks
Frits:
get the source.list names for any special repos (mulitmedia comes
to mind)
dpkg --get-selections >filename
on the new box, do a base install only. Do not pick any
"applications" during the installation, deselect everything.
transfer your filename over.
modify /etc/apt/sources.list to suite and make sure all your
"special" reposes are represented.
dpkg --set-selections < filename
apt-get upgrade-dselect
watch the magic happen.
it is possible you might have a few apt-get -f install moments to
correct the order of the packages installed (perhaps one or more
could not yet install but will the 2nd time around due to cryptic
deps) but I have not had this happen doing this.
HTH
P.S
This is off the top of my head, google dpkg get-selection for the
exact commands, but I think these are it.
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