Sat Sep 19 14:52:42 EEST 2009

Replicate package selection from one Ubuntu install to another clean one

To replicate your packages selection on another machine (or restore it if re-installing),
You can type:
$ aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?installed!?automatic' >~/my-packages Move the file "my-packages" to the other machine, and there type: $ sudo xargs aptitude --schedule-only install < my-packages ; sudo aptitude install It might be interesting for you to always check the automate command