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Francesco Facconi Clone packages from server to local machine

Created by Francesco Facconi
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# I use this in a nightly cron job to have an updated list of my system's packages:

dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

# Then on my local system I use this to sync the packages up manually:

sudo dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt
sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

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