On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Wayne Cuddy wrote: > If there is one feature that I would LOVE to see in dselect it would be > to save all the packages I have selected and allow my to load the > selection on a new system so I don't have to do it everytime. Maybe > this feature is already there and I don't know about it...
Wayne >From dpkg --help: dpkg --get-selections [<pattern> ...] get list of selections to stdout dpkg --set-selections set package selections from stdin I use it like this: dpkg --get-selections > my_selections dpkg --set-selections < my_selections --David Teague Debian GNU/Linux: Because software should not be expected to crash, and reboots are for hardware and kernel upgrades.