Showing posts with label showmanual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label showmanual. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Transfer package list from one linux system to new install

 

Open the terminal on your old machine and enter this command. It creates a list of all packages you manually installed.

apt-mark showmanual > packages.txt

Transfer the packages.txt file to the PC with the new installation. Open a terminal in the that navigate to the folder where you kept the packages.txt file. Then run this command.

sudo xargs apt install -y

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