begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:51:16 -0400: > On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 15:15:17 -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > > > begin quotation of Tong on 2004-08-07 14:20:53 -0400: > > > >> I'm new to Debian. Seems that Debian keeps all configuration data in > >> a DB. Is there a way to backup this configuration data, so that > >> next time when I have to reinstall Debian, using apt-get install > >> <all my package list>, I don't have to answer those hard and tedious > >> questions again? > > > > Look at the man page for dpkg; particularly, '--get-selections' and > > '--set-selections'.
<snip> > The '--get-selections' and '--set-selections' only give your the list of > packages, they won't save configuration for you. Pipe the output of `dpkg --get-selections` to a file, copy that over to the new computer, and pipe it into `dpkg --set-selections`. Then run apt-get -f install; it'll attempt to install all packages on the first computer. You'll still have to answer configuration questions, but you won't need to specify packages.
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