Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021, 15:30:35 CEST schrieb Christian: Hi, maybe this is the command you need? From an older doku: -------------
3.3.10 Record/copy system configuration To make a local copy of the package selection states: $ dpkg --get-selections "*" > myselections # or use \* “*” makes myselections include package entries for “purge” too. You can transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with: dselect update dpkg --set-selections <myselections apt-get -u dselect-upgrade or dselect install ---------------------- Hope this helps. Best Hans > Hi altogether, > > I'm new to *Debian* and so far I like it very much. > > I´ve some (basic) knowledge regarding Linux-distros but this knowledge > is based on the fact that I´ve been using Lubuntu (ubuntu derivative) > for some time now. > > I appreciate there are some differences between Ubuntu and Debian so I > installed *Debian10 buster* as a VM - in order to gather some experience > with it. > > Up and until now I seem to be getting along with it just fine and I like > the fact that it´s really lightweight. > > I´ve got one question though: > > Using (L)Ubuntu I had a certain _command_ at hand which helped me with > fresh/clean installs. > > Before converting to a new version I entered the following command (on > the old OS) in the terminal: > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)/ > > This gave me list of all packages which were post-installed after the > initial setup. > All I had to do was putting the results of the command in a text file, > say "*result.txt*". > > The beauty of this command is that it produces the packages (programmes > that I installed with apt) *without* any dependencies. > > After installing the new system I used the command > > /xargs -a /path-to-result.txt sudo apt-get install/ > > and my new system was on the same level as my old one before. > > Trying out that very command in Debian however didn´t work as desired: > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)// > //gzip: /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz: No such file or directory// > //adduser// > //anydesk// > //apt// > //...// > //zlib1g/ > > So there was some output but not the one I was looking for. > > The file "*initial-status.gz*" indeed doesn´t exist in /var/log/installer. > > Here are the contents of /var/log/installer in Debian: > > /rosika2@debian ~> ll /var/log/installer/// > //insgesamt 1,4M// > //drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Jun 16 16:59 cdebconf/// > //-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Jun 16 16:59 hardware-summary// > //-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 Jun 16 16:59 lsb-release// > //-rw------- 1 root root 107K Jun 16 16:59 partman// > //-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72K Jun 16 16:59 status// > //-rw------- 1 root root 1,2M Jun 16 16:59 syslog// > //-rw------- 1 root root 41K Jun 16 16:59 Xorg.0.log/ > > So my question is: Does this file exist at all (possibly using another > path)? > Or is there another preferred way of getting info concerning all > post-installed packages (without their dependencies)? > > Thanks a lot for your help in advance. > > Many greetings. > Rosika
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