Getting YaST to pass a software list
Pardon me if this is an RTFM but I can't find it in the manual. Having spent a couple of hours adding and deleting software in YaST to get to a software list I like, is there any way of getting YaST to dump this list so it can install the same set on 2 other machines. TIA, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
you can try 'rpm -qa'
Is there a way of getting YaST to dump a list of software installed so it can install the same set on 2 other machines. Ground Zero pointed out that you can try 'rpm -qa' OK there's the list I wanted, where do I feed it in to get those RPMs on 2 other machines? I can remember being able to dump and read software lists during installs, but how about on an already built system? -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 15 January 2003 07:53 pm, Michael James wrote:
Is there a way of getting YaST to dump a list of software installed so it can install the same set on 2 other machines.
Ground Zero pointed out that you can try 'rpm -qa'
OK there's the list I wanted, where do I feed it in to get those RPMs on 2 other machines?
I can remember being able to dump and read software lists during installs, but how about on an already built system?
With apt, you can do this easily. To get just the package names (without version and release numbers): rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' > pkglist Then do the following: for pkg in `cat pkglist`; do apt-get install $pkg done Don't worry about packages that are already installed. They will either get updated to the latest version or apt will simply say "foo is already the latest version" Hope that helps. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JrW5+FOexA3koIgRAk5LAJ4g3FmbQEgLz//0gfcMIOOZObgURQCgoYrF xYMDO/84b0+e+bHqNz+/vpo= =ypA7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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