on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 10:42:53PM -0700, Osamu Aoki ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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.
While that's doable, the following is probably more straighforward:
$ dpkg --set-selections < file
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
Cheers.
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