On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 03:43:08PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:50:30PM +0100, Etienne Grossmann wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > is there any way to install on a Debian system the same packages > > that are found on another Debian system? The machines are not strictly > > equal. > > Yes, you can. > Do in the "primary" machine: > > dpkg --get-selections > packages > > And then, in the cloned machine do: > > dpkg --set-selections < packages
a more thorough version of this is like so: dpkg --get-selections \* > packages then dpkg --set-selections < packages that way if you removed some packages from the primary machine they will also get removed on the clone. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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