On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:18:39PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 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.
If you don't care about manual vs automatic, then use dpkg. If you do care, then store only the names of manually installed packages and just install that. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
