a7x, you may be either happy or dismayed to know that you can obtain a nearly identical (and more accurate, for reasons that I didn't feel like investigating) result using:
aptitude --disable-columns -F 'can_be_marked_as_auto %p' search '~i!~M~R(~i)' aptitude --disable-columns -F 'no_dependents %p' search '~i!~M!~R(~i)' You can refer to http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html for the meanings of the search string - ~R(~i) matches packages whose reverse depends are installed on the system. However, it's better to use: aptitude --disable-columns -F 'can_be_marked_as_auto %p' search '~i!~M (~R(~i)|~Rrecommends:(~i))' aptitude --disable-columns -F 'no_dependents %p' search '~i!~M !(~R(~i)|~Rrecommends:(~i))' The above includes recommends as well as depends, which is how aptitude calculates which packages to remove anyway. A tabular list of all manually installed packages can be obtained using: aptitude search '~i!~M' -- No way to view explicity installed packages, excluding automatically installed packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122047 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
