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

[Sanders King]

All good ideas, BUT, At this stage I think that a reinstall would be
faster (if less educational).  Thanks to everyone for all the ideas.
:-)

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:59 AM, David Schoen <dschoen at squiz.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
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