Doug wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Is there a way to get the packages the user has installed? > > > > Try: > > > > apt-mark showmanual > > > > That will show any package that was explicitly installed. That is, > > not pulled in automatically as a dependency. The command is new for > > Wheezy and later. Older systems do not have that feature. > > If you downloaded the package from somewhere, the original file may > still be in your Downloads directory.
Sure. The deb files for both manually installed and automatically installed dependencies will both be in /var/cache/apt/archives until the admin issues 'apt-get clean'. But that wasn't the question. :-) At least not the way I read it. I read it as they want to know the names of the packages they would need to install in order to reproduce the currently installed system. Which is actually not a trivial exercise on Debian systems, unfortunately. Bob
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