Re: List of packages

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Stephen Touset:
> On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 
> > Jim Hall wrote:
> > > On Sarge, is there a way to list every installed package? I don't think 
> > > I need things like libs, just the package names.
> > 
> > I've said this before, but dpkg -l gives you everything that is 
> > installed, including the libs.
> > 
> > The only way of knowing "what you installed" is by keeping a list 
> > yourself. E.g. apt-get install x-window-system gets you tons of things, 
> > but all you installed was x-window-system.
> 
> dpkg --get-selections | tr "\t" " " | cut -d\  -f1 | grep -v lib | wc -l

Nope.  That finds stuff that's since been removed.

  dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall | ...

might lead you to where you want to go.


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