A posting on wellylug the other day appears to provide a solution to
what I was ultimately looking to accomplish. It is via "all packages
installed" rather than simply "what's been installed since distro install":
dpkg --get-selections > dpkg-selections
dpkg --set-selections < dpkg-selections
apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
Cheers,
Roger
Nick Rout wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes that sort of helps though gives me far more than actually I wanted,
which I suspected would be a response so I'll rephrase my question in the
way I nearly did earlier. Following performing some ubuntu installation
where a pre-defined set of packages is installed for me, I then want to add
a bunch of other stuff, most of which I'd do via "sudo apt-get install
programme1 programme2" etc on a few occasions. I would then be told I'd
need a bigger bunch of dependencies, type y and away it would go. I'm
looking for a listing of programme1, programme2 etc.
Roger
AFAIK apt-get does not keep such a record, whereas aptitude does.
