clone ubuntu installation

[sunny-O0WJhd4tT3hg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org (Laura Conrad)]

I have a new computer, and will be moving my desktop to it over the next
week or so.

I'd like to put a fresh ubuntu 9.04 installation on, but I don't want to
spend the next 2 months finding packages I need that aren't installed
yet.   What's the easiest way to take a fresh install and say, "Add all
that packages that are on that other machine and aren't yet here?"

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