On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 10:57:12PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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' ;)
Do you mean dpkg --set-selections? I suppose that would work because aptitude should then install those, with the dependancies and mark things appropriately. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
