2020-05-06 16:25 GMT+02:00, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com>: > On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 2:39 AM marco restelli <mreste...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2020-05-06 11:29 GMT+02:00, marco restelli <mreste...@gmail.com>: >> > Hi all, >> > this is a bit off topic, but probably is not an unknown problem for >> > many on the list. >> > >> > I am a long time gentoo user and I occasionally work on an Ubuntu >> > system. I wonder >> > whether there is an Ubuntu equivalent of the portage world file, to >> > separate the packages >> > installed because the user wants them and those that are only there as >> > a dependency. >> >> So, I finally found it short after posting: >> >> apt-mark showauto >> apt-mark showmanual >> >> does the job. >> >> Marco >> >> > $ cat /var/log/apt/history.log > ~/Desktop/allhistory.log && zcat /var/log/apt/history.log*gz >> ~/Desktop/allhistory.log
OK, yes, this is also a solution, thank you. apt-mark gives the present state, looking into the logs provides the whole evolution. Marco
