Re: list non auto packages

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting Rusi Mody (rustompmody@gmail.com):
> Is there a way to get the  packages the user has installed?
> 
> Yeah I know that
> dpkg --get-selections
> will get ALL packages
> 
> How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed?

Would it help to look at /var/log/aptitude...
[INSTALL] lines but not [INSTALL, DEPENDENCIES],

and also /var/log/apt/history.log...
Install: <package> (<version>) lines but not (<version>, automatic).

Cheers,
David.