list of all installed packages

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

After the recent conversation regarding this, and since I'm a Debian-
newbie, and want to keep a history of ~when I installed packages,
I created this little bash script that I run each time I install
or remove packages:
  x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M`
  COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > ~/dpkg.installed.$x
  ln -sf ~/dpkg.installed.$x ~/dpkg.installed

Then, I grep ~/dpkg.installed to see what is installed at any one
time.

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