On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 07:56:27AM -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 11/4/2013 7:19 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 02:20:17PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > >>In a new box where the Wheezy OS will be freshly installed I want to > >>install all the packages which I presently have in a box with Squeeze. > > > >Why can't you just upgrade? > >IOW, unlikely that you'll get any help with your "jump through the > >hoops" method. > > > > Maybe because it's a new box so there's nothing to upgrade? > > I'm looking for the same information - for the same reason.
What information for what reason? If you mean to take a selection of installed packages from a Squeeze box (unfortunate name) and apply some sort of dpkg --get-selections/dpkg --set-selections onto a Wheezy box then I would advise against it. Who knows what gruels are waiting in the dark. I may be wrong, and it is a supported method, but if it coughs at some point, I'd hate to be the one to (help) clean up the mess. Instead it would make more sense to install a fresh Wheezy system and then install the top level packages you require. Or install Squeeze on the new box do the dpkg --get-selections/dpkg --set-selections thing, THEN upgrade to Wheezy. Anyone else have any better ideas? -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131104145030.GE24484@tal
