Take over packagelist from one Debian to another

Posted by digo on July 31, 2009 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

In order to sync the state of installed packages from one Debian or Ubuntu to another one, the following process can be helpful. Make a packagelist on the original machine:

dpkg --get-selections > myselections.txt

Transfer the packagelist (myselections.txt) over to the new machine and do the following there:

apt-get update
dpkg --set-selections < myselections.txt
apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
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