On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 10:16:01 +0200, François Cerbelle wrote: > Le Ven 3 octobre 2008 08:52, Pol a écrit : > > I would like to install on a new station the same applications currently > installed on my laptop. > > Any hints to run a script? > > Hi Pol, > > You can use "dpkg --get-selections > packages.lst" to get the installed > packages and "dpkg --set-selections < packages.lst && apt-get update && > apt-get dselect-upgrade" to install the same package list... > > But : > 1 - check the command and Options, I did not use it for a long time and it > might have changed ; > 2 - you will loose the benefit of aptitude (the flag "auto installed") on > you new install
You can save the list of automatically installed packages on the old system: aptitude -F '%p' search '~M' > auto-packages.txt Then this should work on the new system: aptitude markauto $(cat auto-packages.txt) > 3 - Do not forget to use the same sources in the /etc/apt/sources.list -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]