I have an admin account(say X) where I have installed some 50 software packages. Now I want to create another admin account(say Y) who can use all 50 software packages.
Is this possible? How do I share the software packages installed on one user account with another?
By default the Ubuntu package management installs all applications for all users.
This will not stop you from manually installing additional applications to a user's HOME directory. In this case you will have to copy this installation over to the other user's HOME.
Most applications will store user defined settings in a user's HOME. Most but depending on the application not all setting may also just be copied over to a new account to make them identical.
A special case are virtual machine's hard drives or Wine bottles that will be stored in a user's HOME by default. To use these from all accounts we can either make a copy resp. clone them to the other account, or we make sure we store these in a shared directory accessible to multiple users.
