On 5 July 2013 05:24, green <greenfreedo...@gmail.com> wrote: > David wrote at 2013-07-03 06:10 -0500: >> On 3 July 2013 21:06, David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I did something similar using aptitude: >> >> aptitude -F "%p" search '~i!~M' >package_list >> aptitude -R install $(cat package_list) > > I use and recommend aptitude because of the interactive dependency > resolver which I believe to be important for handling the intricate > dependencies among Debian's thousands of packages. > > The above example is one I used to backup the package set on my > systems, until I tested it with a restore and learned that it does not > properly duplicate the selected packages. This is because of > dependencies which are satisfied with one of multiple packages. > Aptitude, or apt, might not select the same "auto-installed" package > as was selected before. While this does not matter so much for > libraries, it does for dependencies like mail-transport-agent. > > The solution is
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