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APTonCD (or alternate) UbuntuMATE 20.04

Asked by Eric Marceau

Can the Ubuntu team re-consider removal of APTonCD?

Could you consider going further and look to consider taking over the code and including it into the basic distro?

If not can you provide a mechanism which will integrate smoothly with Synaptic and permit smart cloning?

Namely,

   1) allow saving current package installation list on Host A as CLONE_LIST, then

   2) on Host B, allow smart "swap-out" of the package list with the packages identified in CLONE_LIST
        (allowing for hardware differences or User non-core system customizations)
        and installing the resulting new consolidated package list.

Thank you,

Eric

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

apt-clone does all this. You can list the installed packages on a system with:

dpkg -l | grep ^ii | awk {‘print $2’} > ~/Desktop/mypackages.txt && gedit ~/Desktop/mypackages.txt

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

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For the reasons behind the removal of aptoncd see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885946

dpkg and apt have functionality to create a list of installed packages that can be transferred to another system to allow installing the same packages there (e.g. apt-mark showinstall and install; dpkg --get-selection and --set-selection)

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Eric Marceau (ericmarceau) said : 		#3

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.