Hi folks, About a month ago there was a thread entitled "Installed list of Apps" concerning the right way to duplicate installed apps on one box to another.
Johan Gronquist suggested: dpkg --get-selections dpkg --set-selections http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169062 Oumar Niane suggested: $ aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' > package_list $ aptitude install < package_list and pointed out that: With [the other] method, you loose the flag for packages that were automatically installed. OK so my situation is somewhat different. I wish to install the packages from a sarge install to a fresh install of lenny and keep the list of installed packages more or less the same. If lenny upgrades the package then I'd prefer to use the newer version rather than install an older version. I don't want to "loose" all the extra packages I've installed on sarge by moving to a fresh install. So in testing the two methods, the dpkg list is 1923 lines long including 73 "deinstalled" lines, whereas the aptitude method is 1276 lines long. So I have two questions: 1. Why is there such a substantial discrepancy between the two methods and which method would be preferable? 2. What about discrepancies between versions? Many lines include a version number. Will I wind up with older package versions or will it be upgraded to the lenny version? How can I get around that if necessary? Many thanks for the help. b. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org