[Nottingham] Preserving a list of packages installed (Ubuntu but could be general!)

[Simon Huggins]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 07:38:32PM +0100, Peter Chang wrote:
> $ dpkg -l > olddeb.lis

dpkg --get-selections  >somefile
is the standard Debian/Ubuntu way to do this.

You can then use:
dpkg --set-selections <somefile
to mirror the package states though doing this between different
versions of Debian/Ubuntu will lead to interesting things happening :)

Simon.

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