Willi Dyck had interesting trick. I knew --get-selections but did not use it with apt-get. I would do slightly different but this concept is interesting.
# dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | cut -s -f1 >installed.deb # cat installed.db | xargs -n 10 apt-get install -d Oh your Willi's vi actions can be |tr '\n' ' '>installed.deb .... But xarg makes this not needed. Osamu On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 12:58:06AM +0200, Willi Dyck wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 12:59:08PM -0700, Alex Swavely wrote: > > What file(s) would I need to backup to get a complete snapshot of all > > installed packages from the distribution I'm using in order to be able to > > recover a system to it's previous state? -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D + + For my debian quick-reference, peek into: + + http://www.aokiconsulting.com/quick/ +
