Help with package managers

[Jhair Tocancipa Triana]

Sean Maguire writes:

> I have Ubuntu install on machine A and I want to do a second install
> on machine B. I like the package set install on machine A and want the
> same on machine B; can I generate a list so that I can "apt-get
> install <list>" and have all the packages from machine A installed on
> machine B?

,----[ man 1 dpkg ]
| To make a local copy of the package selection states:
|      dpkg --get-selections >myselections
| 
| You might transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with:
|      dpkg --set-selections <myselections
| 
| Note  that this will not actually install or remove anything, but just set the
| selection state on the requested packages.  You will need some other  applica‐
| tion  to  actually  download and install the requested packages.  For example,
| run dselect and choose "Install".
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HTH,

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--Jhair