Re: [luv-talk] Apt or Synaptic output as an input script?

Andrew Spiers <andrew@andrewspiers.net> wrote:

dpkg --get-selections | awk '{ print $1 } ' will get you just the list you need, and you should then be able to pipe that into apt-get or aptitude with something like xargs apt-get install < /tmp/selections

Or just use dpkg --set-selections on the new system, which will take as input the output of --get-selections on the old one.