[ale] list pkgs installed since os install?

[Jim Kinney]

EXCELLENT!! Will that "stay current" as updates occur? i.e. wife's new
ubuntu laptop with updates and I may want to keep track/be able to
replicate that setup again.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Preston
Boyington<preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> kinda along the same lines, if you had used dpkg and "get selections"
> when you first installed the system you could do the same now and run
> diff against the files.
>
>
> now if the point is to have another computer 'just like yours' as far as
> packages installed/uninstalled then you could:
>
> on the source computer via terminal:
> dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt
>
> then on the destination computer:
> apt-get update
> dpkg --set-selections <selections.txt
> apt-get dselect-upgrade
>
> just be sure your sources.list are the same on both machines and
> whatever you installed or uninstalled will be done to the destination
> computer.
>
>
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