On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:56 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > Hello, > > I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get > the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally. I use this command to get a list of all the packages that are manually installed: aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T That includes essential packages, and doesn't include versions.