Onkar Shinde wrote: > You can get a list of such packages with 'dpkg -la'. Using command > 'dpkg -la | wc -l' will tell you number of packages installed.
thanks > > When you install something from source, it is not recorded in package > database unless you are using checkinstall. So there is no way get > list of such packages. > so one us checkinstall or should keep a record of what all is installed that is not through apt-get etc. thanks a tonne regards ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
