27 Aug 12:26
Fwd: cloning a desktop to a notebook
From: jsmith@... <jsmith@...>
Subject: Fwd: cloning a desktop to a notebook
Newsgroups: gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug
Date: 2008-08-27 10:26:08 GMT
Subject: Fwd: cloning a desktop to a notebook
Newsgroups: gmane.org.user-groups.linux.gnhlug
Date: 2008-08-27 10:26:08 GMT
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Forgot to send to the distro list, plus one edit:
"sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && apt-get -f install" should be ""sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && sudo apt-get -f install"
jeff
From: jsmith-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org <jsmith-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook
To: Neil Joseph Schelly <neil-36BP7YAVJ2kN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
-------------------------------------------------------------Date: Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook
To: Neil Joseph Schelly <neil-36BP7YAVJ2kN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Neil Joseph Schelly <neil-36BP7YAVJ2kN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 15:36, Greg Rundlett wrote:Yeah, apt-get -f means something else entirely. But this is what xargs is all
> 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`
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'/'
the way I use is with dpkg -
"dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt"
move packages.txt over to the new machine, then:
"sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && apt-get -f install" will install them all.
You can edit the packages.txt to remove any packages you don't want installed (say you had nvidia on the desktop, but ATI on the laptop - you could hand-edit the packages.txt to remove the nvidia, then install the ATI package).
I've used this several times to clone machines.
jeff
"dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt"
move packages.txt over to the new machine, then:
"sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && apt-get -f install" will install them all.
You can edit the packages.txt to remove any packages you don't want installed (say you had nvidia on the desktop, but ATI on the laptop - you could hand-edit the packages.txt to remove the nvidia, then install the ATI package).
I've used this several times to clone machines.
jeff
Forgot to send to the distro list, plus one edit:
"sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && apt-get -f install" should be ""sudo dpkg --set-selections <packages.txt && sudo apt-get -f install"
jeff
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