I installed 12.04 in a separate partition. Right now, I would like to install the software that I have installed on my 10.04 in my 12.04 too. I was hoping there would be a workaround for this using aptonCD. But I figured out 'restoring' using apt on cd only copies the .debs into the cache file and that might mess things up for me considerably.
The rough idea that I have is :
- Run an 'apt' command on 10.04 that will give me all the package names that I have currently installed on my 10.04.
- Bring those names to 12.04 and tell apt to fetch the same softwares, but the versions of them that belong to 12.04.
- Install them.
Is there anyway to do the above steps or is there a totally different way in which I can achieve this?
this is one common way to duplicate a package set. On the old machine:
sudo dpkg --get-selections "*" > packages
Copy the file packages to the new machine (a pen drive is a good option. Then run this:
sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --set-selections < packages
sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
This doesn't get you only the packages you installed. It also gets their dependencies, etc.
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