Maria Rodriguez said: > Hi, > > I have a production machine which I would like to duplicate in a test lab. > I was just going to get the output of 'dpkg --get-selections' and see if > there were some way to parse it to just get the package names. I'm no > programmer and can't script worth a darn, so does anyone have any > suggestions on how to go about doing such a thing? > > After that, I figured I could do something along the lines of 'apt-get > install `cat packages.txt`' or something to get all of the packages to be > the same on both computers.
dpkg --get-selections >selections dpkg --set-selections <selections apt-get dselect-upgrade thats what I do, theres another method, similar, has an extra argument in the dpkg command, but I forget what it was(check the archives) nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]