27 Apr 07 Howto duplicate a Debian setup
Posted by Hans-Henry Jakobsen
This post describes howto reinstall or duplicate a Debian or Debian based distribution like Ubuntu.
First we need to extract the installed packages on the source server and save them in a file
debian:~# dpkg --get-selections >> packages
Now we move to the target server and set the package selections according to the package file we just created on the source machine.
debian:~# dpkg --set-selections < < packages
Now we just need to run this in order to actually install the packages.
debian:~# apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
