Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook

["Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह)" <user=1541@nabble.blu.org>]

 H! Greg 

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Greg Rundlett <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> I'm building two new work systems; installing Kubuntu on 
> A) a desktop and 
> B) a notebook. 
> 
> Both are i386 so there are no architecture differences.  There are of 
> course differences in RAM, and disk space.  However, I'm installing 
> binary packages. 
> 
> The desktop is pretty much done.  I started building the notebook 
> (meaning point and click through the package manager).  Rather than 
> try to chase down all the software I'd like to install, I'd rather 
> just clone the desktop system.  I figured the most straightforward way 
> to install all the packages that are on system A onto system B is to 
> just list the installed packages and feed that into a apt-get install 
> 
> system A 
> dpkg-query -l|cut -d ' ' -f 3 |xargs echo -n > package-list.txt 
> 
> system B 
> sudo apt-get install -f package-list.txt