Welcome to the wonderful land of Debian :-)

> Firstly, is there any way to build a list of packages installed on my
> machine at home which includes the source from which the package was
> installed?

There definitely is.  Others may have better solution. My way is

on the 'source' machine do
dpkg --get-selections | grep -e install -e hold | grep -v deinstall > pkgs

and on the 'destination' machine do
dpkg --set-selections < pkgs
apt-get dselect-upgrade

kamaraju


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