cloning a desktop to a notebook

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008 15:36, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> 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`

Yeah, apt-get -f means something else entirely.  But this is what xargs is all 
about.

cat package-list.txt|xargs apt-get install

That still assumes your package list is clean.  This is how I'd make it (need 
apt-show-versions installed).  It still won't make a perfectly clean list, 
but clean enough.  I have duplicated many system setups just like this.
apt-show-versions |cut -f1 -d'/'

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