On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:52:39AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:43:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2023-10-02 at 09:28, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > > > Yeah, the one for which I had to manually use "dpkg -i". > > > > That information is not tracked. > > > > What is tracked is "the package versions known to be available from each > > registered repository" and "the package versions which are installed". > > There *is* tracking. Packages can be marked as "automatically installed" > or not. The problem is, the marking is not consistent with user > expectations.
But not if you use dpkg directly (dpkg doesn't even resolve dependencies, but just gives up when some aren't met). That's why I proposed comparing apt logs and dpkg logs -- things in the latter but not in the former were probably installed with straight dpkg. It probably ain't straightforward, though. And the logs might have been rotated out anyway. Cheers -- t
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