How to install the same package on multiple ubuntu machine?

[NoOp]

On 11/12/2011 06:58 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a number of ubuntu machines with the same version of OS. I want
> install some package on all of them. Login to each of them and run the
> installation command (could be apt-get or traditional
> configure->make->make install) is time consuming. Is there some tool
> that can help me automate this process? Thanks!
> 

If these are multiple packages you could simply build a markings file
and then distribute that and your sources list & run as a script file.

Refs:
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReinstallingSamePackages>
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1057608
HOWTO Reinstall all of your current packages if you do a fresh Ubuntu
install
<http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/techblog/article/restore_packages_using_dselectupgrade/>
<http://www.ubuntugeek.com/howto-reinstall-all-of-currently-installed-packages-in-fresh-ubuntu-install.html>

Note: you can easily modify the marking/dpkglist.txt file to suit your
requirements. If you use Synaptic you can just select the packages that
you wish to mark rather than the entire list of installed packages.