Awesome, that's probably what I will go with, thanks Paul! (rather than doing something with R, I will probably just diff the two files and see about scripting something with the result.) Kendric Beachey On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Paul Johnson <pauljohn@ku.edu> wrote:

On 08/04/2010 03:17 PM, Kendric Beachey wrote:

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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?

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.

Here's what I would do in the short term, just because I can.

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?)

If the answer is "now", I'd do this:

dpkg -l

that spits out everything you have, like

ii xserver-xorg-vid 1:1.7.3-1 X.Org X server -- SiliconMotion display driver

Divert that output to a file

dpkg -l >> mydebs.txt

After you install fresh, do the same

dpkg -l >> mynewdebs.txt

I'd then use some program to get the items that are in mydebs.txt that are not in mynewdebs.txt.

I'd probably do that with R, but I bet you'd get it done easily with a spreadsheet.

pj

Thanks!

...

Kendric Beachey

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