Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > If I copy the whole filesystem to another hard drive and rebuild the dpkg > database, will it work ? Will dpkg be able to understand all the packages > installed ?
What about dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections RTFM, dpkg(1) Or you can use (which is my preferred way): aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt Then simple editing of installed.txt will make you script to install the same packages on new computer. Best, Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/ GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
