[ale] list pkgs installed since os install?

[Jim Kinney]

Not to tout rpm package management (much :-) but that seems to be a
big missing puzzle piece for apt to clean up. I'm sure there is a way
at a lower level (dpkg maybe) as Debian is a well designed distro and
that is a usefull piece of information for a sysadmin to have.

With RH/fedora systems rpm -qa will list all installed packages.

Hmm. Rereading the question I see you want to know what has been done
_since_ the install. With RH systems there is a file called
anaconda-ks.cfg that has the list of installed packages. rpm -qa and
diff against the filelist from the install list will show the add-ons
but not what has been upgraded.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Tim Watts<timtw at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know of a way to list all packages installed on a system (Kubuntu 8.10)
> since the OS was installed? It doesn't seem possible to do this based on the
> info apt keeps. Have I missed something?
>
> I guess one approach would be to get the list of packages installed on the
> current system and then diff that with the list on the upgraded system. Hmm,
> not exactly what I want but it probably doesn't get much simpler than that,
> n'est pas?
>
>
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