upgrading from breezy to dapper and adept

[Tez]

Patrick Healy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed breezy on my home machine some time ago and am very happy
> with it.  I will install dapper on a second machine very soon to make a
> "newer clone" of my home environment but I wonder if there is any way
> that I can easily tell adept to install all of the packages that I have
> installed over the past year+?
>
> That is, for all of those perl modules, latex style files, etc. that I
> have installed using adept it would be nice if I could tell adept to
> install these in one go on top of dapper.  Even a file that listed all
> of the additions I have made would be a start, I suppose...
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Pa healy
>   
Do this,

dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt

move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine
and install packages
sudo dpkg --set-selections < selections.txt
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrad

Tez