Now, using either of the above package lists, you can do: for pkg in $(cat package-listing-from-xxx); do apt-get install $pkg; done which will work although not be the most efficient way (because you will have to run apt-get for each package, and hence dependences are re-resolved over and over, or:
Better way:
(after adjusting sources.list)
apt-get update dpkg --set-selections <package-listing-from-xxx apt-get upgrade
-Roberto
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