[KULUA] How to tell what's stock and what's added in *buntu?

[Kendric Beachey]

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 at ku.edu> wrote:

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