[ale] list pkgs installed since os install?

[Preston Boyington]

> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Preston
> Boyington<preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> kinda along the same lines, if you had used dpkg and "get selections"
>> when you first installed the system you could do the same now and run
>> diff against the files.
>>
>>
>> now if the point is to have another computer 'just like yours' as far as
>> packages installed/uninstalled then you could:
>>
>> on the source computer via terminal:
>> dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt
>>
>> then on the destination computer:
>> apt-get update
>> dpkg --set-selections <selections.txt
>> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>>
>> just be sure your sources.list are the same on both machines and
>> whatever you installed or uninstalled will be done to the destination
>> computer.
>>
Jim Kinney wrote:
> EXCELLENT!! Will that "stay current" as updates occur? i.e. wife's new
> ubuntu laptop with updates and I may want to keep track/be able to
> replicate that setup again.
>

AFAIK "Yes".

Possibly, if there was a package that changed it's name you might have a
hiccup, but I've not run across that.  To my knowledge it uses the
generic name of the package and doesn't include version numbers.


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