On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:11:55 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and > > install packages > > dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt > > apt-get update > > apt-get upgrade > > What I can't find, but I know I've seen, is a way to do it using > aptitude that preserves aptitude's knowledge of what was installed > manually vs automatically. > Can someone throw me a link (or a cluestick)
You can save a list of the automatically installed packages on the original system like this: aptitude -F '%p' search '~M' > auto-list.txt Once you have installed the same packages on the cloned system, you can do this: aptitude unmarkauto '~i' aptitude markauto $(cat auto-list.txt) (I never tried this myself, but I think it should work.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
