On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 12:53, J Merritt wrote:
> Is there a way to get a list of installed packages in Debian,
> preferably from the command line and preferably in a text file?
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${STATUS} ${PACKAGE} ${VERSION}
${ARCHITECTURE}\n'
(All on one line.) You can write the output of this to a text file.
You can drop some of the fields if you don't need them.
--Mike Bird