Re: list non auto packages

2015-02-01 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Rusi Mody wrote on 01/31/2015 03:15: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Yeah I know that dpkg --get-selections will get ALL packages How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed? Yeah I remember some answer to this a few

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Rusi Mody
On Saturday, January 31, 2015 at 10:30:05 AM UTC+5:30, Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual Thanks I think this will be very useful [have yet to check - need to replicate some machines] -- To

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Rusi Mody wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual Thanks I think this will be very useful [have yet to check - need to replicate some machines] Ah! You are trying to replicate an

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/01/2015 12:09 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Doug wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency.

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-31 Thread Bob Proulx
Doug wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy

list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Rusi Mody
Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Yeah I know that dpkg --get-selections will get ALL packages How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed? Yeah I remember some answer to this a few months ago. The closest I can get is aptitude

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Doug
On 01/30/2015 11:55 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Rusi Mody wrote: Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Try: apt-mark showmanual That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that

Re: list non auto packages

2015-01-30 Thread David Wright
Quoting Rusi Mody (rustompm...@gmail.com): Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? Yeah I know that dpkg --get-selections will get ALL packages How to filter out the zillions of lib... and only see what was manually installed? Would it help to look at