Awesome, that's probably what I will go with, thanks Paul!<br><br>(rather than doing something with R, I will probably just diff the two files and see about scripting something with the result.)<br><br clear="all">Kendric Beachey<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pauljohn@ku.edu">pauljohn@ku.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On 08/04/2010 03:17 PM, Kendric Beachey wrote:<br>
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The thing I would like to do is get a list of the various pieces of software I've installed over and above the stock selection that ships with Edubuntu, so I can reduce the time spent redoing all that installation work. Does anyone know of a good way to get the system to tell you a list of all the .debs you have installed beyond what it shipped with?<br>
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I think you have the right strategy. I've done this on rpm based systems, now I'm running Ubuntu, I know I've seen a standard routine for this in the ubuntu mailing list. I will check and see.<br>
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Here's what I would do in the short term, just because I can.<br>
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Do I understand it right that you want to know what packages you have now (or do you mean the packages you used to have?)<br>
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If the answer is "now", I'd do this:<br>
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dpkg -l<br>
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that spits out everything you have, like<br>
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ii xserver-xorg-vid 1:1.7.3-1 X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion display driver<br>
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Divert that output to a file<br>
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dpkg -l >> mydebs.txt<br>
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After you install fresh, do the same<br>
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dpkg -l >> mynewdebs.txt<br>
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I'd then use some program to get the items that are in mydebs.txt that are not in mynewdebs.txt.<br>
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I'd probably do that with R, but I bet you'd get it done easily with a spreadsheet.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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Kendric Beachey<br>
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