I am moving from a 2TB hard drive to a 4TB SSD. I have installed 22.04LTS on the new SSD. The complete list of non-SNAP packages I have is in /var/lib/dpkg/status . How do I force apt to install just the packages from the old /var/lib/dpkg/status file that have not been installed with the new 22.04LTS ? I have saved the old /var/lib/dpkg/status on the new drive in a non-systems directory owned by me. Obviously, I can do this manually one by one. If I do a diff between the old and new /var/lib/dpkg/status files, I presumably can find the files missing from the new /var/lib/dpkg/status. Is there a way to automate the process (e.g., switches to apt or any other package installer to only add the packages that are not on the new system)?
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