For the archive [was: getting a list of manually installed package]

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Since manualy installes Packages are generaly not in any Packages.gz
lists someone can use following construct:

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#!/bin/bash

for Packages in /var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages ; do
  grep --invert-match --only-matching --fixed-strings "$(dpkg --get-selections |cut -d '	' -f1 |sed 's,^,/,g;s,$,_,')" ${Packages} |sed 's,^/,,g;s,_$,,'
done

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The "for" loop read all Packages files availlable and compare the
output of get-selections to it.

Please note, that you should do this after an

    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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