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face="Times New Roman" size=3>I am installing Ubuntu 8.04 workstation (i386) on
2 different PCs (different hardware).</FONT></P>
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same</FONT></P>
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"synaptic package manager" I installed a long list of packages</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>To get the list in a file I used:</FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">dpkg-query -W -f='${status}
${Package}=${Version}\n'|grep ^"install ok installed"| cut -d' ' -f4,4 >
pkg_list.1<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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used</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>cat pkg_list.1 | sudo aptitude install</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>sudo aptitude upgrade</FONT></P>
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size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">dpkg-query -W -f='${status}
${Package}=${Version}\n'|grep ^"install ok installed"| cut -d' ' -f4,4 >
pkg_list.2<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3>The problem is that pkg_list.1 & pkg_list.2
are different</FONT></P>
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identical</FONT></P>
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