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i used to use the dselect package as was given above…
but i found this in the #ubuntu irc… just type ” !clone ” in the irc
i think that this is better since there is no need to install the dselect package , and it just uses the aptitude…
To replicate your packages selection on another machine (or restore it if re-installing), you can type
$aptitude –display-format ‘%p’ search ‘?installed!?automatic’ > ~/my-packages
move the file “my-packages” to the other machine, and there type
$sudo xargs aptitude –schedule-only install
December 21st, 2010 at 4:16 pm
i used to use the dselect package as was given above…
but i found this in the #ubuntu irc… just type ” !clone ” in the irc
i think that this is better since there is no need to install the dselect package , and it just uses the aptitude…
To replicate your packages selection on another machine (or restore it if re-installing), you can type
$aptitude –display-format ‘%p’ search ‘?installed!?automatic’ > ~/my-packages
move the file “my-packages” to the other machine, and there type
$sudo xargs aptitude –schedule-only install