[clug] Ubuntu Netbook Edition - simple question (hopefully)

[David Schoen]

On 15 August 2010 21:33, Angus Gratton <gus at projectgus.com> wrote:

>  On 15/08/2010, at 8:43 PM, Sanders King <sanders at mupanda.com> wrote:
>
>   I have compared version numbers of the various bits to those
>> in the VirtualBox install and I can't see any differences.
>>
>>
> I don't know if this is what you've already tried, but if it was me I'd
> 'dpkg --list > somefile' on each machine and then compare the package lists
> with a diff tool like meld.
>
> Maybe a little lo-fi, but should help you sort out any remaining packages
> to add/remove.


I usually pipe that sort of thing through sort to rule out the lo-fi nature
of the data.

I often compare RHEL clusters that are _supposed_ to be the same with
something similar to 'rpm -qa | sort | md5sum'. If there's some difference I
usually try to make use of cssh/dssh to compare every machine against one of
the "known" sources... Similar things work with "pear list" and I assume
"dpkg --list" :) Checking boot time and in memory config is more fun.