Comments on: Show the List of Installed Packages on Ubuntu or Debian

By: T-Bob

T-Bob — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:58:14 +0000

I thought there was a way to (somehow!) list only the non-default packages – i.e. the ones added after an initial install. Any clues?

By: Donald

Donald — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:16:13 +0000

Is there a way to expand this to get package descriptions as well? I know that /lib/dpkg/available has a list of all available packages from the last apt-get update with their descriptions. I want to figure out a way to generate a document showing which new packages have been added along with their descriptions to document what has changed on my system. (lenny 5.0.2).

By: Bimzee

Bimzee — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:40:12 +0000

very useful and thanks a lot geeks

By: niwat

niwat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:07:14 +0000

Oh ! very useful, and thank you very much.

By: Sjowhan

Sjowhan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:15:28 +0000

Cheers! Was searching for this helpful document!

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:21:14 +0000

Cheers body,

it was very useful

By: max

max — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:40:22 +0000

.. The ‘less’ sign and the text after it got cut, I’ll rephrase:

cat dkpg-get.txt | dpkg –set-selections

By: max

max — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:37:54 +0000

It looks like forum has problems with the firefox?

dpkg –set-selections

By: max

max — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:43:24 +0000

dpkg –set-selections

By: max

max — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:42:55 +0000

Ooops, it had to be:

#source machine:
dpkg –get-selection | grep -v deinstall > dkpg-get.txt

#target machine:
dpkg –clear-selections
dpkg –set-selections
apt-get dselect-upgrade

(You may need to copy /etc/apt/sources.list from source machine to target to let apt-get to download the packages beforehand)