Re: cloning a desktop to a notebook

["Dan Ritter-2" <user=13@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 02:42:21PM -0400, Greg Rundlett wrote: 
> The desktop is pretty much done.  I started building the notebook 
> (meaning point and click through the package manager).  Rather than 
> try to chase down all the software I'd like to install, I'd rather 
> just clone the desktop system.  I figured the most straightforward way 
> to install all the packages that are on system A onto system B is to 
> just list the installed packages and feed that into a apt-get install 
> 
> system A 
> dpkg-query -l|cut -d ' ' -f 3 |xargs echo -n > package-list.txt 
> 
> system B 
> sudo apt-get install -f package-list.txt 
> 
> Any better approaches?  Any reasons this will blown up in my face?