Looks great and seems to work except for the upgrade. On the second machine I do the "--set-selections" portion then the update and upgrade. It says nothing to upgrade, nothing to install. If I edit the file and remove the trailing install/deinstall then insert an "apt-get install " at the beginning of each line it does however install quite a few.
Thus spake Shaun Crossley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 07:35:08 Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > >I finally got a second hard drive so I can put Linux on my wife's > >machine. She'd like her X setup Identicle to mine. I've installed a > >base Woody system, current kernel, etc. Now I need to get all the same > >KDE packages on her machine. Other than "dpkg -l | grep kde > file, > >copy the file to her machine and apt-get install < file" is there a > >"better debian way" to do this? > > In the past, I've used the following to perform that task: > > dpkg --get-selections > myselections (on the source machine) > dpkg --set-selections < myselections (on the target machine) > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (on the target > machine) > > That seemed to work for me. Your mileage may vary! > > -- > > Shaun Crossley > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.whatever.ca :wq! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert L. Harris | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu DISCLAIMER: These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else. Diagnosis: witzelsucht IPv6 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ipv6.rdlg.net IPv4 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rdlg.net
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