Tim Hardy

Many thanks to Renato for the following useful tip:

On your existing box:
COLUMNS=180 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' | xargs > /tmp/t

Then (having backed up then restored the list to /tmp/t, on the new install:
apt-get install `cat /tmp/t`

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