Then again, I suppose I could boot a live cd do the same thing but save it
to my hard drive, and diff it.


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote:

> dpkg --get-selections > installed-software.log
>
> will generate a list of all installed software, but it doesn't tell me what
> I installed as opposed to all installed software.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> don't have it front of me right me, but do a "man dpkg" & you'll find
>> it in there.
>>
>> scott
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>>
>> "With or without religion, you would have good people doing good
>> things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do
>> evil things, that takes religion."
>>       ---Steven Weinberg
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Mike Bigalke wrote:
>>
>> > I know this has got be easy.  How do I generate a text file with all
>> > of my installed software?
>> >
>> > I thought Synaptic would create a list of all installed software,
>> > but for the life of me I can't get it to do so.
>> >
>> > I tried Aptitude, but while it has a list of all installed software,
>> > I can't get it to save a list.
>> >
>> > I must be missing something.
>> >
>> > >
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>

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