Hi altogether,
I'm new to *Debian* and so far I like it very much.
I´ve some (basic) knowledge regarding Linux-distros but this knowledge
is based on the fact that I´ve been using Lubuntu (ubuntu derivative)
for some time now.
I appreciate there are some differences between Ubuntu and Debian so I
installed *Debian10 buster* as a VM - in order to gather some experience
with it.
Up and until now I seem to be getting along with it just fine and I like
the fact that it´s really lightweight.
I´ve got one question though:
Using (L)Ubuntu I had a certain _command_ at hand which helped me with
fresh/clean installs.
Before converting to a new version I entered the following command (on
the old OS) in the terminal:
/comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc
/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)/
This gave me list of all packages which were post-installed after the
initial setup.
All I had to do was putting the results of the command in a text file,
say "*result.txt*".
The beauty of this command is that it produces the packages (programmes
that I installed with apt) *without* any dependencies.
After installing the new system I used the command
/xargs -a /path-to-result.txt sudo apt-get install/
and my new system was on the same level as my old one before.
Trying out that very command in Debian however didn´t work as desired:
/comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc
/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)//
//gzip: /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz: No such file or directory//
//adduser//
//anydesk//
//apt//
//...//
//zlib1g/
So there was some output but not the one I was looking for.
The file "*initial-status.gz*" indeed doesn´t exist in /var/log/installer.
Here are the contents of /var/log/installer in Debian:
/rosika2@debian ~> ll /var/log/installer///
//insgesamt 1,4M//
//drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Jun 16 16:59 cdebconf///
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20K Jun 16 16:59 hardware-summary//
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160 Jun 16 16:59 lsb-release//
//-rw------- 1 root root 107K Jun 16 16:59 partman//
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 72K Jun 16 16:59 status//
//-rw------- 1 root root 1,2M Jun 16 16:59 syslog//
//-rw------- 1 root root 41K Jun 16 16:59 Xorg.0.log/
So my question is: Does this file exist at all (possibly using another
path)?
Or is there another preferred way of getting info concerning all
post-installed packages (without their dependencies)?
Thanks a lot for your help in advance.
Many greetings.
Rosika
