On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:59:19PM +0200, Kai Sterker wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've got a question concerning Debian I found no answer for in the > manuals; perhaps you can help me: > > Is it possible to see what packages I have installed, so I can > > (a) download all of them in one go and > (b) reinstall exactly those package after erasing all of my HD > > For example, if I make dist-upgrade, I guess only those packages are > downloaded that are no longer up-to-date on my box, which might not be all. > > Even if all packages would be downloaded, I wouldn't know how to make sure > that all of them are installed when I do a fresh setup _without_ manually > selecting every single package. > > > For example, SuSE allows to save a package configuration (to a floppy disk > among others). And when doing a new install, I can load that config from the > disk, so I need not go through package selection again. Is something similar > possible with Debian too? > > Thing is, I'll have to completely erase my HD, and I want to minimize the > time to setup everything to my liking afterwards.
dpkg --get-selections > package.list Then, after you reinstall, you can do: dpkg --set-selections < package.list apt-get dselect-upgrade That should do it for you. You may want to save some of your config files in /etc, if you have modified anything special. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
