Re: question regarding post-installed packages

[Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de>]

    Hello Hans,
    
    
    thanks so much for your very quick reply.
    
    I just tried out the command you provided and it seems to produce
    quite an extensive list beginning with "acl" and ending with
    "zlib1g:amd64".
    So it´s basically a list with all the packages which are installed
    by  default plus the packages I installed afterwards.
    
    I was hoping for a list that provides just my post-installed
    packages.
    But I assume that in view of the fact that the initial-status.gz
      doesn´t seem to exist on Debian there´s no way of
    achieving this goal.
    
    Never mind. Your command will certainly be of great assistance when
    setting up a new system.
    
    Thank you very much for that, Hans.
    
    Many greetings and keep safe.
    
    Rosika

Am 22.06.21 um 15:52 schrieb Hans:

> Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021, 15:30:35 CEST schrieb Christian:
> Hi, 
>
> maybe this is the command you need? From an older doku:
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>
> 3.3.10 Record/copy system configuration
>
> To make a local copy of the package selection states:
>
> $ dpkg --get-selections "*" > myselections
>
>  # or use \*
>
> “*” makes myselections include package entries for “purge” too.
>
> You can transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with:
>
> dselect update
> dpkg --set-selections <myselections
> apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
> or dselect install
> ----------------------
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Best
>
> Hans
>
>