2010/3/20 Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> > > I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will > > likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba, > > whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan > > to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can > > be purged easily when I am finished with the application. > > So the intention is to get rid of some packages you've installed "for > experimentation purposes"? > In that case, you might want to ask for a list of packages which are not > marked as "auto-installed". This should only list the packages you've > exlicitly asked to install, so it should be a reasonably short list, > which you can then review manually to decide what to remove. > > Sadly, I can't think off-hand of a command that will list the packages > that are installed and aren't marked "auto-installed". > Can anyone help? > > > Stefan >
# aptitude -F “%p” search ~i\!~M >> file.txt -F "%p" - search by NAME of package ~i - only installed packages !~M all those that are NOT auto-installed, i.e that are MANUALLY installed. >> file.txt - send result to file.txt Rogerio
