Re: What packages has aptitude installed on my server?
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:09:53PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> was heard to say:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> > Kelly Jones wrote:
> >> I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package.
> >>
> >> Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way?
> >>
> >> Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge?
> >>
> > dpkg -l | less
>
> dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | less
>
> will restrict it to just the installed packages, just the package
> name.
>
> aptitude search '~i!~M'
>
> will show only those packages that are not automatically
> installed. That is those packages that were manually, purposefully
> installed, and not packages that were brought in as dependencies.
If what you want is historical information, check /var/log/aptitude
and /var/log/dpkg.
Daniel
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