[plug] debian/ubuntu package list copy for new install

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Tue Oct 10 15:20:55 WST 2006


Michael Holland wrote:

> I couldn't figure out how to do it with apt-get, but following the
> examples section of the dpkg man page, dselect->install seems to be
> working. Thanks!

For future reference, `apt-get dselect-upgrade` is what you were looking
for :-)  [For Google, that's how you convince apt-get to install
a set of packages once they've been backed up with dpkg --get-selections
and the saved selections restored with dpkg --set-selections ...]

Cameron




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