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[frans]

Allso if your not already doing it, use apt-cacher, it can safe lots of 
data on your cap.
There are some nice tutorials on it, but basicily you can point 
synaptic's network config file towards the server.
much faster than a internet connection too

William Kinghorn wrote:
> Thanks Hilton, will try this
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> William Kinghorn wrote:
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>> Hi All,
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>> I have 11 PCs, installed Ubuntu 8.10, I have installed a lot of
>> education packages, I want to install the same packages onto the other
>> 10.
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>> I know that there is a command to create a text file of the packages,
>> then copy the file to the other computers, and install from that file,
>> but I can't remember which list I belong to which had an e-mail about
>> how to do this.
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>> Can someone please give me the 2 commands, one to create the file on
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>> first PC, two to install the packages onto the other PCs .
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> To get the list;
> dpkg --get-selections > installed.txt
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> Copy "installed.txt" to the /tmp folder on the other PC's.
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> On the other PC's type;
> dpkg --set-selections < /tmp/installed.txt
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> Then run aptitude or synaptic and use the mark as selected function. Not
> too sure about this. Maybe somebody else can help with that.
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> Cheers
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>> William
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