On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Nick Rout <nick.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:36 AM, David Lowe <da...@thistledown.co.nz> wrote: >> Would the history log in Synaptic do the job? That's what I've used before >> for this purpose. >> >> - David >> >> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Andrew Sands <and...@theatrix.org.nz> >> wrote: >>> >>> Guys, >>> >>> Google foo is not working well for me today, I know that I've seen a >>> command to list out all packages that have been subsequently installed into >>> an installation but it's a big fail bus on the results being returned. >>> >>> I need to know what I installed on the family 9.10 before upgrading to >>> 10.04 LTS. Otherwise the signal-to-noise ratio will be real bad in my ear >>> for the next week if I miss something out. >>> >>> Thanks in advance for any positive suggestions that are offered. >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> Andrew > > dpkg --get-selections >
dpkg --get-selections >package.list.in.a.safe.place Then you can cat package.list.in.a.safe.place| dpkg --set-selections on the new system, although Volker's warning is appropriate.
