[wplug] debian install question

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Saturday 15 January 2005 20:58, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in January Eric C. Cooper assaulted the keyboard and
> produced: 
> | MachineB %  dpkg --get-selections > foo
> | MachineB %  scp foo MachineA:
> |
> | (At this point you might want to use a text editor on foo to remove
> | anything that you don't actually want on A.)
> |
> | MachineA #  dpkg --set-selections < foo
>
> The above stuff worked.
>
> | MachineA #  apt-get upgrade
>
> However, this did not. The following:

John, just for reference's sake, could you tell us how did it exactly 
not work?

>   MachineA #  dselect install
>
> Did work.

Cheers

-A