Re: getting a list of manually installed package

[Rob Wilco <rob.wilco@gmail.com>]

Owen Heisler wrote:
> 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.

Did you manually installed the essential packages?