On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:52 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:56 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get > >>>> the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally. > >>> I use this command to get a list of all the packages that are manually > >>> installed: > >>> > >>> aptitude -F "%p" search \!~M~i~T > >>> > >>> That includes essential packages, and doesn't include versions. > >> Did you manually installed the essential packages? > > > > When Debian is first installed, all the installed packages are marked as > > manually installed in aptitude, so that was already done. > > So basically, I see no way of getting a list of my manually installed > packaged without debian's manually installed package. > > And if I try to trick apt by telling him that all packages are > automatically installed except those i personnaly installed, aptitude > wants to uninstall them right away. > > But I refined my question: how to get a list of the installed packages > that differs from the standard debian installation?
Well, to do that you would have to have a list of the packages in the "standard" tasksel selection, then remove those packages from aptitude's manually installed list. Or get dpkg's list of installed packages on a newly installed system, and use that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
