Installed Software Query

[Florian Diesch]

"Chaman Singh Verma" <csv610 at gmail.com> wrote:

> How can I get the list of software installed on my present machine so that,
> if something goes wrong
> with this machine, I can install all the software once again on new machine?

This saves the list into installed_software.txt

  dpkg --get-selections > installed_software.txt

and this installs the packages from the list:

  dpkg --get-selections < installed_software.txt && sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade


   Florian
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