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How to get list of packages installed by me.

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How to get list of packages installed by me. If you provide me command that will be so nice of you.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#1

you could use

dpkg --get-selections > installed-software

to create a list of software installed on your system. You could then compare that with what is installed on a clean system.

I don't know where you get that from though apart from letting us know which version of Ubuntu you are running and hoping someone here has a clean install and will run the same command so you can compare or doing you own clean install on either a real or a virtual system (e.g. Virtualbox) for comparison.

Its not difficult to do just time consuming.

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Sunny (sunny-dyal) said : 		#2

Thanks for you quick response. I am using ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Please provide me list of clearn clean install packages.

One more thing:

I used following command which prints all packages starts with "aa"

dpkg-query -l '*aa*'

Do we have any pattern for default packages available on clean install or any field which states this is ubuntu's default package?

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Best N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#3

Hi ,

you can find all packages installed by you with synaptic-package-manager .

~$ sudo apt-get install synaptic

Then open it and click "Status" then click "Installed (local or obsolate)" and you will see.

Any version of Ubuntu has a manifest , where all the default pre-installed packages listed.

For 12.04 LTS this list is here => http://nl.releases.ubuntu.com/precise/

Scroll down the page and you will see a file ends with .manifest

Depends on what version of Ubuntu have installed (i386=32bit or amd64=64bit) download the manifest and open it with Libreoffice to read it.

Thanks

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#4

Nick appears to have answered this question already but for the sake of completeness.

The output of dpkg --get-selections

On a fresh install of Ubuntu-12.04.1-i386 is at the link below. The other versions may be different

http://paste.ubuntu.com/1360930/

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Sunny (sunny-dyal) said : 		#5

@Nick: I do already have synaptic package manager and it works but I need this info in terminal or might be in text file that is why I wanted to use commands. I really need solution.

Please suggest any other approach. I don't want to use 3rd party software.

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Warren Hill (warren-hill) said : 		#6

You have list of what is installed on your computer from the command I gave in the first post and a list of what is installed on a fresh system from Nick (using the .manifest file).

You have another list from me taken from a fresh install on a i386 Ubuntu 12.04.1

Comparing these lists should give you the information you need.

You can either use synaptic or "sudo apt-get remove" to get rid of the packages you don't want

The other alternative is to do a full backup and reinstall everything. May be quicker in the long run

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Sunny (sunny-dyal) said : 		#7

Thankyou all for your suggestion. I will go with "Comparing these lists should give you the information you need."

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Sunny (sunny-dyal) said : 		#8

Thanks NikTh, that solved my question.