"Kenneth E. Lussier" said:
>All,
>
>Is there a way to find out everything that is installed on a Debian
system? I
>have a system that is configured exactly the way I want, but I have to
move to
> a
>new machine. The new machine has completely different hardware, so moving
the
>disk won't work (the old one is IDE and the new one is SCSI). What I'd
like to
>do is just feed a list of everything that is installed on the first
system to
>apt-get or dpkg on the second system and just let it run. Any ideas?
>
>TIA,
>Kenny
dpkg -l > packages.list (or dpkg --listfiles > packages.list).
from the main pages:
dpkg -l | --list package-name-pattern ...
List packages matching given pattern. If no pack�
age-name-pattern is given, list all packages in
/var/lib/dpkg/available. Normal shell wildchars
are allowed in package-name-pattern. (You will
probably have to quote package-name-pattern to pre�
vent the shell from performing filename expansion.
For example, dpkg -l 'libc5*' will list all the
package names starting with "libc5".)
The heading of the output is:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-=========================================
===
ii a2ps 4.13b-10 GNU a2ps 'Anything to PostScript'
converter
first column (the first i in this case) is Desired State (installed in
this case), the second i is the actual state (installed, in this case).
So, the 2nd field actually contains all the packages on your system.
Extract with awk, input into dpkg on the receiving end for the install.
jeff
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