Re: [Trisquel-users] Synaptic package list export - selected only?

[davesamcdxv]

Could've been a tad more selective though - maybe by marking manual  
everything listed as those 2 metapackages' dependencies but not the  
dependencies of said dependencies..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Synaptic package list export - selected only?

[davesamcdxv]

I think the word you're looking for is manually installed (i.e. as opposed to  
automatically installed).  
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/apt-mark.8.html

https://askubuntu.com/questions/195782/how-to-view-a-list-of-packages-that-were-manually-installed-without-their-depend
http://ask.debian.net/questions/how-to-get-a-list-of-manually-installed-packages
https://askubuntu.com/questions/2389/generating-list-of-manually-installed-packages-and-querying-individual-packages

Try apt-mark showmanual

(Anyway if memory serves me everything that came on the Trisquel ISO were  
marked manual).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Synaptic package list export - selected only?

[newellrp1]

Well, back to square one. Debian's idea of "selected" and mine were  
different. For now I'm just putting my packages I ask the computer to install  
in a text file.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Synaptic package list export - selected only?

[newellrp1]

Isn't there some way to just use the list of selected packages to select  
those packages on a new install and apt-get all of those packages back on to  
your system? to me that is the most elegant solution (and most future-proof,  
as DEBs won't be getting obsolete).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Synaptic package list export - selected only?

[dguthrie]

See https://wiki.debian.org/ListInstalledPackages
You can run in the terminal
dpkg -l > packages.txt
to write information about the installed .deb packages to file packages.txt.  
Also run

dpkg-query -f '${binary:Package}\n' -W > packages.txt
to just write the names.
I tried to get it to work in Synaptic but it seems easier to use the  
terminal.