On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:58:13AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > [1] Doug's method is good, but I want to automate it further. I just > > have to write a sed script to make the output of 'aptitude search !~M~i' > > suitable for 'dpkg --set-selections' > > I'm not sure that's necessary; if the search pattern yields what you want > to install, then just replace the search subcommand with install.
Let me elaborate. Doug's (Douglas Tutty) idea of a backup/reinstall means saving the output of 'aptitude search ~i!~M' to a file and then using that to select packages on a clean base install. I think it can be automated like this: aptitude search ~i!~M > pkg.lst sed -e 's/^i\ *//' -e 's/\ -\ .*$/install/' bak/pkg.list \ | dpkg --set-selections aptitude install -y [--without-recommends] Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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