On Tuesday 22 July 2008 02:54 pm, Stackpole, Chris wrote: > >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to switch an installation from an IDE disk to a SATA disk. I > > use > > > > synaptic to manage packages for me. The File menu has an option to > > > > generate > > > > > a package install script. So, I created a custom filter to show > > just > > > > installed packages and selected that filter. (cool) Then I > > selected > > > all the > > > > > packages for "reinstallation" (the only option). Then I selected > > > > "generate > > > > > package install script" from the File menu. The script that was > > > > generated > > > > > starts with > > > #! /bin/sh > > > wget > > > wget > > > wget > > > . > > > . > > > . > > > with one "wget" line for each package that I selected, but there is > > > > nothing in > > > > > the script file after the "wget". Am I doing something wrong, or is > > > > there a > > > > > bug? > > > > At least you got wget's, I only got #! /bin/sh > > > > synaptic 0.62.1 Graphical package manager > > > > > > Hugo > > Same. Just #!/bin/sh. I have the same version as well 0.62.1. That's > odd. > > Anyway, looking at the file menu for synaptic, it has a "Add downloaded > packages" and the hover text says "Add packages downloaded with the > 'Generate package download script' feature to the system". > > I have never used this before, so this may be a wild guess, but is it > possible that you run the script to wget the packages and then run the > "Add downloaded packages" to install them? Have you tried that? > > Have fun! > Chris Stackpole I used to get the one line script and my version of synaptic is older 0.57.8. After googling I found out that I need to select packages first. then I got one line per selected package. But, only wget on each line. Mark
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