From: Adam Bower Sent: 11 January 2006 13:46

On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 02:35:43PM -0000, Keith Watson wrote:

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Here's one for the debian aficionados on the list, is it possible to use apt-get install with a list of packages fed in from a file?

Another way to do this is:

(on box 1)

dpkg --get-selections > foo

(copy foo to box 2 then on box 2)

dpkg --set-selections < foo

Then...

apt-get dist-upgrade (i /think/)

ooh, very nice! I haven't got round to getting broadband yet but I can see how I could combine this with apt-zip so I could download the packages elsewhere. I will definitely try this and let you know how I get on. Thanks Adam :D Regards, Keith ____________ There is nothing infinite apart from finite things - D.T. Suzuki