On Wed,05.Nov.08, 12:58:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > aptitude install <followed by the list of packages> > > Remember to escape the newlines with \ > > I forget what the maximum command-line length is; it may be an issue > depending on how many packages you manually installed. > > You could make the package list with one package per line and use xargs > to pipe it through aptitude (may take longer). > > Or you can just use the aptitude user interface on the new box and > manually mark the packages off the list. For a one-off, this may be the > fastest way. > > It all depends on how automated you want the process to be.
Or you could just feed the list to 'dpkg --get-selections' ;) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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