Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 08:49:42 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz |

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 16:49:28, David wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Mistery solved by looking at the html part (the '/' are meant to denote > > italic), the correct command is: > > comm -23 <(apt-mark

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 23 iun 21, 09:22:24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) > > > Command

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 08:49:42AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >Perhaps more readable in the symmetrical variant > > > > diff -u <(ls dir1) <(ls dir2) > > > >Very handy. > > > does not the excellent guide also say not to try to do anything

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread mick crane
On 2021-06-23 08:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) Command substitution without '$'? I must be

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 06:51:39AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u) > Command substitution without '$'? I must be missing something and would >

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-23 Thread David
On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 13:52, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Mistery solved by looking at the html part (the '/' are meant to denote > italic), the correct command is: > comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc >

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 iun 21, 10:57:39, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:44:50PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 15:30:35, Christian wrote: > > > > > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package:

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 iun 21, 11:25:00, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Christian wrote: > > Hi Andrei, > > > > thanks a lot for your reply.  > > > > > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be > > > > Well, from the man pages (man comm) : > > > > /comm

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:08:35PM +0200, Christian wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > thanks a lot for your reply.  > > > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be > > Well, from the man pages (man comm) : > > /comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2// Your mail user agent (or your editor) appears

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Christian
Hi Andrei, thanks a lot for your reply.  > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be Well, from the man pages (man comm) : /comm [OPTION]... FILE1 FILE2// // //DESCRIPTION// //   Compare sorted files FILE1 and FILE2 line by line.   -1 suppress column 1 (lines

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 05:44:50PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 22 iun 21, 15:30:35, Christian wrote: > > > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)/ > > It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23'

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Christian
Dear Hans,  thanks again for your help. > if you can see in this file, which packages are postinstalled or dependent [...] Alas that doesn´t seem to be the case. As an example I post-installed the fish-shell and the respective entry simply is: /fish  

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 22 iun 21, 15:30:35, Christian wrote: > > /comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc > /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)/ It's unclear what exactly '/comm -23' is supposed to be and it seems your mail program messed with line breaks.

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021, 16:17:15 CEST schrieb Christian: Hi Christian, I looked not further into te result file. However, if you can see in this file, which packages are postinstalled or dependent, you can just filter this file with tools like cat, grep or even sort. On the other hand, you

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Christian
Hello Hans, thanks so much for your very quick reply. I just tried out the command you provided and it seems to produce quite an extensive list beginning with "acl" and ending with "zlib1g:amd64". So it´s basically a list with all the packages which are installed by  default plus the

Re: question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021, 15:30:35 CEST schrieb Christian: Hi, maybe this is the command you need? From an older doku: - 3.3.10 Record/copy system configuration To make a local copy of the package selection states: $ dpkg --get-selections "*" > myselections # or use \* “*”

question regarding post-installed packages

2021-06-22 Thread Christian
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