<quote who="Andrew McNaughton">

> I know that it's possible under debian to get a list of where files come
> from (ie which package), and probably you can also get checksums.  I'm not
> sure on the details though.

dpkg -S <file>
dpkg -L <package>

> You also want the list of installed software, which you should normally be
> able to get from apt....  Hmm.  Presumably you can get it from looking
> directly at where apt stores its files.

dpkg -l

  or for just the package names:

COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}'

:-)

- Jeff

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