Matej Cepl wrote: > 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. > Cute, but why is it "preferred"? The dpkg method (which I've used) is pretty simple. -- derek
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