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Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'



I do this job using aptitude instead apt:
/usr/bin/aptitude search '~i !~M' -F '%p' --disable-columns

Toni Mas

Missatge de Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> del dia ds., 12 de set.
2020 a les 9:29:
>
> On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include
> > automatically installed packages?
>
> No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an
> apt concept.
>
> > Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those
> > that would otherwise have been automatically installed.
>
> You can obtain a list of automatically installed packages with
> apt-mark(1):
>
> $ apt-mark showauto > automatically-installed-packages
>
> Then, on the replicated system where you presumably had used
> "dpkg --set-selections" to install the same set of packages:
>
> # apt-mark auto $(cat automatically-installed-packages)
>
> HTH,
>     Sven
>


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