Hello, On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Claudius Hubig <debian_1...@chubig.net> wrote: > Hello Artifex, > > Artifex Maximus <artife...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Keith McKenzie <km3...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Those will get 2 separate lists of installed software names & versions. >> # dpkg --list | wc -l >> 2481 > > Why don’t you use the output of dpkg -l? Also check man 1 dpkg-query.
Thank you. dpkg -l writes out all installed packages but not the relations between them. I did similar comparison between systems but seeing the differences in a tree makes this process easier because I can cut leafs if I know there is related or not to my later installation. If I compare packages line-by-line without any relation I do not know that any extra or missing packages is related to other packages or might "standalone" packages. I think the continuous upgrade process from the early stage of Wheezy left some unneeded packages. This is normal as I started early just want to clean out my system. Maybe I am wrong on base idea but would like to check and look for some utility to make it easier. I there is no such utility I will compare line-by-line as last resort. Bye, a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPkuXvEF34-EcG-jPck3J-hNrNrmDj2MW+N2Ro=veq4hrqy...@mail.gmail.com