[ubuntu-in] keeping track of installed pkgs
friends is there any standard way of knowing what all softwares i have installed on my ubuntu6.06 uptill now? what i mean is that the softwares which i installed thru synaptic can be uninstalled thru it too. but there are some which i compiled and installed directly. They donot show up on synaptic or in Add/Remove softwares utility. Again I suspect that not all which i installed thru apt-get show up on synaptic either. How should i keep track? One thing that worries me is that when i upgrade my ubuntu version i shall have to download all of them again. i have read somewhere there is a utility which creates a CD of all the inntalled pkgs. BTW what is the ideal directory to install a program to when i am doing it myself.i am currenlty doing it to /opt. is it ok? regards nanbudh - Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online. Click here.-- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] keeping track of installed pkgs
On 10/8/07, nan budh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: friends is there any standard way of knowing what all softwares i have installed on my ubuntu6.06 uptill now? what i mean is that the softwares which i installed thru synaptic can be uninstalled thru it too. but there are some which i compiled and installed directly. They donot show up on synaptic or in Add/Remove softwares utility. Again I suspect that not all which i installed thru apt-get show up on synaptic either. How should i keep track? One thing that worries me is that when i upgrade my ubuntu version i shall have to download all of them again. i have read somewhere there is a utility which creates a CD of all the inntalled pkgs. BTW what is the ideal directory to install a program to when i am doing it myself.i am currenlty doing it to /opt. is it ok? It is not recommended to install softwares directly as it is not possible to keep track of the softwares installed by compiling from the source. One of the roles of package manager is to keep track of all the softwares installed using the package manager. The best way to keep track of all the softwares installed from source is to install them in one parent directory such as /opt. Btw, packages installed with apt-get will show up in synaptic as synaptic is a wrapper around apt-get. regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] keeping track of installed pkgs
On 10/8/07, nan budh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: friends is there any standard way of knowing what all softwares i have installed on my ubuntu6.06 uptill now? what i mean is that the softwares which i installed thru synaptic can be uninstalled thru it too. but there are some which i compiled and installed directly. They donot show up on synaptic or in Add/Remove softwares utility. Again I suspect that not all which i installed thru apt-get show up on synaptic either. How should i keep track? One thing that worries me is that when i upgrade my ubuntu version i shall have to download all of them again. i have read somewhere there is a utility which creates a CD of all the inntalled pkgs. BTW what is the ideal directory to install a program to when i am doing it myself.i am currenlty doing it to /opt. is it ok? regards nanbudh If you are installing package from compile i.e. the usual ./configure, make install way then first install 'checkinstall' using synaptic. Then instead of 'make install' you can do 'checkinstall -D make install'. This will create a deb package of the program and install it. So it can be tracked through synpatic. Onkar -- Passion - Some people climb mountains - others write Free software. Don't ask why - the reason is the same. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
