On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:09:53PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > Kelly Jones wrote: > >> I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package. > >> > >> Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way? > >> > >> Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge? > >> > > dpkg -l | less > > dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | less > > will restrict it to just the installed packages, just the package > name. > > aptitude search '~i!~M' > > will show only those packages that are not automatically > installed. That is those packages that were manually, purposefully > installed, and not packages that were brought in as dependencies.
If what you want is historical information, check /var/log/aptitude and /var/log/dpkg. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]