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Set the status of "purge" packages - dpkg --get-selections

On doing following on my Lenny system:

Code:

dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

I got the following output with some packages' status as "purge" or "deinstall" like this:

Code:

................

libsepol1                                      install

libsigc++-2.0-0c2a                              deinstall

libslang2                                      install

libsplashy1                                    install

libss2                                          install

libssl0.9.8                                    install

libstdc++6                                      install

libsysfs2                                      install

libtext-charwidth-perl                          install

libtext-iconv-perl                              install

libtext-wrapi18n-perl                          install

libts-0.0-0                                    install

libusb-0.1-4                                    install

libuuid1                                        install

libvolume-id0                                  install

libwrap0                                        install

libx11-6                                        install

libx11-data                                    install

libxapian15                                    deinstall

....................

logrotate                                      install

lsb-base                                        install

lsof                                            install

lzma                                            purge

make                                            install

makedev                                        install

man-db                                          install

manpages                                        install

mawk                                            install

mdetect                                        install

minicom                                        install

mktemp                                          install

module-init-tools                              install

mount                                          install

nano                                            install

ncurses-base                                    install

ncurses-bin                                    install

net-tools                                      install

netbase                                        install

openssh-blacklist                              purge

openssh-client                                  install

openssh-server                                  install

passwd                                          install

.............

The packages are shown as purge because I had attempted to remove them but was not able to remove them because of dependency errors.

Also the packages that are shown as "deinstall" are removed on my system. How do I remove these packages from the listing.

How do I set the status of those packages (which are shown as "pruge") back to "install" again? I am fine with not removing them.

I use apt-get as my package manager.

Sorry folks. I think I found the answer to this one. If anybody wants to know just let me know and I will post it.

Thanks

I'd be interested in the solution.

That listing is used if you wish to setup an identical system as far as packages go.

Packages that are installed by default in the system will be listed as purged or de-install so the new system you transfer this package list to will know that is what it is supposed to do with those packages

Original System

Code:

dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

copy the packages.txt file to the new machine

Code:

dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt



apt-get dselect-upgrade

The new machine will now install and remove packages according to what is in the list. .

Thanks Farslayer.
Is it possible to use the apt-get dselect-upgrade command with aptitude instead?.Or does it not matter in this case.

Regards.
The trooper.

I don't believe aptitude is aware of the dselect-upgrade option. This means packages wont get flagged as automatically installed by Aptitude.

Since this is typically the fist thing you would do on a system if you were going for an identical packages selection, I would probably just do the apt-get dselect-upgrade then follow it up with aptitude keep-all, and use aptitude from that point forward.

Sure wish I could find a more recent reference for that info..

Quote:

Originally Posted by farslayer (Post 3402471)

Just goes to prove you learn something new everyday!
Will make a note of this.

Ooops...Sorry for the delay....Looks like farslayer has posted the solution already. Thank you.