Hmmm. I've used this method several times before, in fact it is my primary
way of building machines.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lisi <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt
> from
> the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old box)
>
> I am failing in using teh list to install. I navigated to /media/cdrom0,
> then
> did
>
> #dpkg --set-selections < installed_packages.txt
> #apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
>
> After the first, the system complained that the file is read only. But I
> only
> want to read it, surely? And after the second command 0 files were
> installed!
>
Are you sure it wasn't just letting you know that you were reading from
read-only media? The other option would be to copy the file from
/media/cdrom0 to /root and do your --set-selections from there. But it
really shouldn't matter.
As for the second, I have never used the -u. And according to the apt-get
man page:
-u, --show-upgraded
Show upgraded packages; Print out a list of all packages that are
to be upgraded. Configuration Item: APT::Get::Show-Upgraded.
As other posters have suggested, try running it without the -u.
--b
