hope that everyone is doing okay , I have a question , i want to know if it possible to install packages from 12.04 to 14.04 not all of them just a few (for exemple i want to transfer the packages that i installed on 12.04 two days ago on the 14.04 version) it is possible ? thank you for your help
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Package names and dependencies shift over time, which makes this pretty unreliable to do. You are better off trying to get a list of the packages you want to have on the new system and then install the new versions of them on 14.04. That way you will have the ones supported by the OS and will get normal updates... Otherwise you will likely end up in "dependency hell."
See Generating list of manually installed packages and querying individual packages for help getting the list of manually installed packages.
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