I guess you want to use dpkg --get-selections and dpkg --set-selections To get the same packages installed on the other do:
dpkg --get-selections < file (on the installed machine) copy the file from thatmachine to the new one dpkg --set-selections < file (on the new one) Ron Rademaker On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Pascal Martin wrote: > I have the following problem: I have one fully installed computer, > and I want to install a second one the exact same way. > > I would like to avoid selecting all the packages manually. > > Is any automated way exists ? Something like listing all packages > from the existing system and generating an installation script for > the new one out of it ? > > Pascal. > >
