> I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone > the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is > common lore: > > > > On source machine: > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > > > > > On destination machine: > > > > > > (make sure sources.list is the same) > > > apt-get update > > > dpkg --set-selections <selections.txt > > > apt-get upgrade > > > And nothing happens. apt-get upgrade won't install a single package. > Doing another get-selections on the target machine indicates that the > package list was not changed by set-selections. > > Did I miss something? > > cu, > Schnobs > >
what you need to do is run: apt-get dselect-upgrade that'll then install all the new packages. hth Ian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
