Question: I have been using Ubuntu 11.10 on a VMWare for sometime now. I did a lot of customization on it (e.g. remove unity, install my applications etc.).

Last week I managed to get another laptop and installed Ubuntu 11.10 on it. I was wondering if it's possible ot make these two Ubuntu system identical, i.e. move everything (settings, applications etc.) from my VM Ubuntu to my laptop Ubuntu.

Answer: 
You can get a list of all installed packages on machine A by running: 

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> `sudo dpkg --get-selections > packagelist.txt`.
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On machine B, you can install all those packages by running: 

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> `sudo dpkg --set-selections < packagelist.txt`
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You can try [clonezilla](http://clonezilla.org/). It supports several file systems.