Re: getting a list of manually installed package
Rob Wilco <rob.wilco@gmail.com> wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 14:33:38 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote:
> >> Magnus Therning wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 19:56:44 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote:
> >>>> I haven't found a way to get
> >>>> the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally.
> >>>> I have played with command such as these :
> >>>>
> >>>> aptitude search '!~M~i'
> >>> Strange, because that works just fine for me :-) But I've made sure
> >>> that my markings in aptitude are correct:
> >>>
> >>> http://therning.org/magnus/archives/132
> >>>
> >> # aptitude markauto '~i'
> >>
> >> aptitude wants to remove the majority of the packages:
> >>
> >> After unpacking 427MB will be freed.
> >>
> >> How do you change the marking without uninstalling them?
> >
> > B) If your aptitude only installs dependencies automatically then this
> > has to be:
> >
> > aptitude unmarkauto '~M!(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)'
> >
> > This will remove the "auto" mark from all packages that are not
> > listed as a dependency or a recommendation of any other installed
> > package.
>
> As I wish to get the list of the package I installed and not those
> installed the debian-installer, i do not think unmarking auto any more
> package will help me. IMHO, I now needs to find a way to markauto the
> package installed by the d-i.
!~E will exclude the Essentials.
HTH,
Andrei
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