On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:48:06AM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: > Hi, > > I apparently have a lot of leftovers from old packages that did not > get cleanly uninstalled, and am losing quite a bit of disk space for > that. > > I would therefore like to do a fresh install (backing up /home and > /etc), but using my current selection of packages (which I just > carefully verified). > > Is there a way to dump my current selection to a file and read it back > later? I didn't find such an option in aptitude or any of the other > tools. > > Ciao > Jens >
I use this: grep -E "^Package|Status:.+$" /var/lib/dpkg/status | \ sed "s/Package:/\tPackage:/" | tr \\n \\t | sed "s/\t\t/\n/g" | \ grep "install ok installed" | \ sed "s/Package: \(.*\)\tStatus: install ok installed/\1/" | sort You could save it to a file and maybe 'aptitude install `cat file`'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
