[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Green) wrote: >Just a quick Dselect question. > >I have a box running Deb 2.1 using dselect and apt, which main hd now has >errors everywhere .. so im about to blow away space on another hd and do >a re-install of debian etc. time for a cleanup anyways. > >Is there a way to copy the exact package list of what I have installed now >over to the new box ? .. so that when i run dselect on the new box .. all >the packages that i now have will be selected .. and it will just start >downloading and installing them etc.
You'll want to look at 'dpkg --get-selections' on the old box, and 'dpkg --set-selections' on the new one. HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
