Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh installation of deby ? I saw etckeeper in the doc (it's a bit late for that :( ) and I know I can go through the logs : /var/log/dpkg.log, /var/log/apt/term.log, /var/log/aptitude but Christmas was only 7 days ago, maybe someone has the miracle recipe ?http://superuser.com/questions/132614/how-to-list-manually-installed-software-packages-in-ubuntu You can save a list of installed packages on the old machine with the command|dpkg --get-selections > ~/packages|and then restore it on the new one with|sudo dpkg --set-selections < ~/packages|Yes thanks. I know this one but it returns all installed packages : I need all packages since installation. ;)If you run X, then Synaptic gives a slightly easier way of reading the logs, with a simple search. See File->History. If it has to be a real list of packages since xxx date, then I think you need to write a script to parse the log files.
Yeah, I'm already on it.. I was suspecting something like that. The miraculous
solution to all : human labor ! :-D
Thanks anyway.
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