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Grant Sewell wrote: > Mark D. Thurston wrote: > Is there any way to list > what packages are currently installed on a Debian system, and use those > lists again as a means to re-install the relevant packages? $ dpkg -l | grep ii > packages.txt > Could I > simply copy the /etc directory (and relevant other directories) once > this is done? Not always, only certain files would transfer OK. Various hardware differences and differences in networking config are likely to differ considerably (and cause a right mess if you overwrite them). Don't forget that apt-get (via dpkg) will setup the majority of the configuration for you, you don't want to overwrite that with config from a different machine. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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