LinuxUbuntu

Compare the packages (deb / apache) on two debian/ubuntu servers

Debian / Ubuntu

I worked up this command and I don’t want to lose it

#diff <(dpkg -l|awk '/ii /{print $2}') <(ssh 111.222.33.44 "dpkg -l"|awk '/ii /{print $2}')|grep '>'|sed -e 's/>//'

This command shows a list of all of the packages installed on 111.222.33.44 that are not installed on the current machine

To make this work for you,  just update the ssh 111.222.33.44 command to point to the server you want to compare it with.

I used this command to actually create my apt-get install command

#apt-get install `diff <(dpkg -l|awk '/ii /{print $2}') <(ssh 111.222.33.44 "dpkg -l"|awk '/ii /{print $2}')|grep '>'|sed -e 's/>//'`

Just be careful that you have the same Linux kernels etc,  or you may be installing more than you expect

Apache

The same thing can be done to see if we have the same Apache modeuls enabled on both machines

diff <(a2query -m|awk '{print $1}'|sort) <(ssh 111.222.33.44 a2query -m|awk '{print $1}'|sort)

This will show you which modules are / are not enabled on the different machines