Re: Getting a list of installed packages
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, 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?
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |awk '/^[hi]i/{print $2}'
This will generate a list of only the names of packages that are
installed. I use this to back things up so that, in the event I need to
do a bare metal reinstall, I can just restore my sources.list, apt-get
update, and 'apt-get install <package-listing'.
-Dennis Carr
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