ubuntu/debian package problem

[Dotan Shavit]

On Monday 14 September 2009, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> Ok, I did something stupid. I have two similar ubuntu systems.
> Noticing that some packages I need are missing on one but not knowing
> which ones,
> I did a list of them using:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > installed-software
>
> Then I used grep to weed out only the installed ones, and went to the
> other system and entered:
> dpkg --set-selections < installed-software
>
> Then I tried to do a dselect, which wants to delete several packages I
> really want to keep.
> Is there any way to keep those packages? Or at least find out which
> ones are forcing removal of it, so I can deselect them?
If these packages were not deleted yet, just use get-selections again.

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>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Geoff.