On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 11:25:58 -0800
Rick Moen wrote:
> My _personal_ favourite part of that StackExchange page is where it
> says there's a solution to that difficult and vexing problem in the
> Linuxmafia.com Knowledgebase at
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/package-database-rebuild.html .
Quoting Antony Stone (antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it):
> > this might be helpful :
> > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/161866
>
> Hm, some lessons for naïve sysadmins in there :)
My _personal_ favourite part of that StackExchange page is where it says
there's a solution to that diff
Dear Anthony,
Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2020 schrieb Antony Stone:
> Hi.
>
> I know I can get a list of the packages installed on a
> currently-running system using commands such as:
>
> dpkg-query -l
> apt list --installed
> aptitude search ~i
>
> However, if there any way I c
Not sure this is exactly what you are after but I have a cron job that runs:
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v "deinstall$" | grep -v "hold$" | grep
"install" | awk '{print $1;}'
and put the output in a file that I backup or grab, i.e.
~/selections-$(hostname).txt.
The file is usually just a ref
On Thursday 31 December 2020 at 12:18:24, Dimitris via Dng wrote:
> Στις 31/12/20 12:50 μ.μ., ο/η Antony Stone έγραψε:
> > I have_all_ files from the machine I want to investigate, and I'm hoping
> > that there's something in /var/cache/apt or /var/lib/dpkg which would
> > allow me to get the sam
Στις 31/12/20 12:50 μ.μ., ο/η Antony Stone έγραψε:
I have_all_ files from the machine I want to investigate, and I'm hoping that
there's something in /var/cache/apt or /var/lib/dpkg which would allow me to
get the same sort of list as the above commands produce.
/var/lib/dpkg/status holds all
Hi.
I know I can get a list of the packages installed on a currently-running
system using commands such as:
dpkg-query -l
apt list --installed
aptitude search ~i
However, if there any way I can do the same thing, but when I simply have a
copy (backup) of the machine, an
