On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 11:35, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > I've got one debian box, and I want to duplicate the package list onto > another machine - how do I go about doing this? > > I've done a dpkg -l to get a list of files from the first machine. It's > got a whole load of extra information (package version no. etc) which I've > filtered out. How can I get apt to recognise the contents of the file as > being a list of packages to install? Is there a better tool for the job?
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