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I have Ubuntu system with a lot packages and applications installed.

Let's name this system as a source. The applications here were installed only as deb-packages.

I need to install application with desktop-files on new system (target).

How can I do this?

apt software-installation .desktop

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  Nice Q&A, I've been wondering how to do that for a long time. However, you should be more specific about which applications this procedure will reinstall. The correct answer to your question as it stands now is "it's impossible to automate this".
  
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I have Ubuntu system with a lot packages and applications installed.

Let's name this system as a source. The applications here were installed only as deb-packages.

I need to install application with desktop-files on new system (target).

How can I do this?

apt software-installation .desktop

share|improve this question

edited Sep 6 at 6:47

N0rbert

asked Sep 5 at 20:31

N0rbertN0rbert

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  Nice Q&A, I've been wondering how to do that for a long time. However, you should be more specific about which applications this procedure will reinstall. The correct answer to your question as it stands now is "it's impossible to automate this".
  
  – danzel
  Sep 5 at 22:15
  

  
  
  
  

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I have Ubuntu system with a lot packages and applications installed.

Let's name this system as a source. The applications here were installed only as deb-packages.

I need to install application with desktop-files on new system (target).

How can I do this?

apt software-installation .desktop

share|improve this question

edited Sep 6 at 6:47

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asked Sep 5 at 20:31

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At first we need to get the list of executables on source system with command like:

dpkg -S $(which $(grep -r ^Exec --no-filename /usr/share/applications/ | sed 's/Exec=//' | awk 'print $1' ) | grep -v /home/$USER | grep -v /usr/local) 2> /dev/null | awk 'print $1' | sed 's/://' | sort -u > apps-list.txt

(command is formatted as in-line code to provide readability, please do not change it to code block)

Command above parses all desktop-files in /usr/share/applications/, extracts contents of Exec= lines, skips applications installed in home folder and in /usr/local, then finds corresponding paths and finally transforms them to the list of packages to store in text file.

At second on target we can simply install these applications with command like

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt)

Note: we can skip non-existent packages by filtering them out using grep:

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt | grep -v -E "app-not-found1|app-not-found2")

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At first we need to get the list of executables on source system with command like:

dpkg -S $(which $(grep -r ^Exec --no-filename /usr/share/applications/ | sed 's/Exec=//' | awk 'print $1' ) | grep -v /home/$USER | grep -v /usr/local) 2> /dev/null | awk 'print $1' | sed 's/://' | sort -u > apps-list.txt

(command is formatted as in-line code to provide readability, please do not change it to code block)

Command above parses all desktop-files in /usr/share/applications/, extracts contents of Exec= lines, skips applications installed in home folder and in /usr/local, then finds corresponding paths and finally transforms them to the list of packages to store in text file.

At second on target we can simply install these applications with command like

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt)

Note: we can skip non-existent packages by filtering them out using grep:

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt | grep -v -E "app-not-found1|app-not-found2")

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At first we need to get the list of executables on source system with command like:

dpkg -S $(which $(grep -r ^Exec --no-filename /usr/share/applications/ | sed 's/Exec=//' | awk 'print $1' ) | grep -v /home/$USER | grep -v /usr/local) 2> /dev/null | awk 'print $1' | sed 's/://' | sort -u > apps-list.txt

(command is formatted as in-line code to provide readability, please do not change it to code block)

Command above parses all desktop-files in /usr/share/applications/, extracts contents of Exec= lines, skips applications installed in home folder and in /usr/local, then finds corresponding paths and finally transforms them to the list of packages to store in text file.

At second on target we can simply install these applications with command like

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt)

Note: we can skip non-existent packages by filtering them out using grep:

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt | grep -v -E "app-not-found1|app-not-found2")

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answered Sep 5 at 20:31

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At first we need to get the list of executables on source system with command like:

dpkg -S $(which $(grep -r ^Exec --no-filename /usr/share/applications/ | sed 's/Exec=//' | awk 'print $1' ) | grep -v /home/$USER | grep -v /usr/local) 2> /dev/null | awk 'print $1' | sed 's/://' | sort -u > apps-list.txt

(command is formatted as in-line code to provide readability, please do not change it to code block)

Command above parses all desktop-files in /usr/share/applications/, extracts contents of Exec= lines, skips applications installed in home folder and in /usr/local, then finds corresponding paths and finally transforms them to the list of packages to store in text file.

At second on target we can simply install these applications with command like

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt)

Note: we can skip non-existent packages by filtering them out using grep:

sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt | grep -v -E "app-not-found1|app-not-found2")

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sudo apt install $(cat apps-list.txt)

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