Getting list of installed packages for later re-installation

[Kristian Rink]

Alexander;


Alexander Skwar schrieb:
> To get a list of the installed packages, I wanted to do:
> 
>     dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > ListOfInstalledPackages.txt
> 
> And to later reinstall those packages, I tought about:

I'm not sure whether this is the way to go, but it worked out very well
quite often for me (both running Debian and ubuntu):

(a) create your package list this way:

dpkg --get-selections > packages.list


... work ...

(b) reinstalled: replay your package list into the empty system:

dpkg --set-selections < packages.list


(c) enter "dselect", choose" option "install", hope for the best. :)


Hmmm, hope this was the way it should be done, it's been quite a while.
Good luck to you, feel free to ask if you need additional help. :)

Cheers,
Kris




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