Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Bulk application installer utility

 

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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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