cloning a desktop to a notebook

[Greg Rundlett]

> system B
> sudo apt-get install -f package-list.txt
>
> Any better approaches?  Any reasons this will blown up in my face?

I *assumed* that apt-get had a -f option to designate a file to read
package names from.... it does not.  So, a working equivalent to what
I intended to have happen would be
 sudo apt-get install `cat package-list.txt`

That said, there were problems with the package list needing clean-up
(found by doing sudo apt-get install --dry-run `cat package-list.txt`)
 I just love dry-run options

Meanwhile, a lot of packages were already in place on system B and it
seems cleaner to do what (Dinesh and) Dan suggests.

Thanks!