On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paindavoine, Matthieu > (MPAINDAV) wrote: > > > > I have a hosed system, and I'd like to do a clean reinstall... I would like > > to keep the .deb configuration I had. Is there a way using eg dpkg to take a > > snapshot of the packages installed now, and feed this file at a later time > > to select the packages to install? > > a) prior to reinstall: > > $ dpkg --get-selections \* > dpkg-selections.txt > > b) save file to (floppy) disk(s) > > c) after having installed the base system: > > $ dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections.txt
Oops, forgot to mention the following final step: d) run to apply the changes apt-get: $ apt-get dselect-upgrade Sven -- Have you rebooted your NT box today?