On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: > Careful, dpkg --get-selections doesn't always list only installed > packages > Try: > > dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | cut -f1
To be pedantic, this will fail if a package has the string "install" in
its name and is in a non-installed state. Also, this will miss held
packages. Better would be
dpkg --get-selections | awk '$2 ~ "install|hold" {print $1}'
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