2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > I do on my home server > > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > > > How can I do that?
> I've never tried that automatically with aptitude and checking the man > page suggests that its not possible. I checked the man page too and find nothing about installing from a file that being containing the list of installed packages. > If what you asked for really worked, then you would loose the main > benefit of aptitude: keeping track of shifting dependancies and cruft > controll. Everything would appear to be automatically installed. I just want to reinstall everything installed on that system with one command. -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]