List of user installed apps

[Nigel Ridley]

Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Donn<donn.ingle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday 28 August 2009 12:43:34 Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>> How do I get a list of user installed apps
>> What is a *user*? I mean, when you choose to install Foogrubnix then you use
>> sudo, so it's a 'root' thing anyway. So, how can the system know?
>> I think the dpkg you gave is the only way to go.
>> If you mean stuff you got from tarballs, then it's find and make notes.
>>
> 
> I think he want to know what packages is installed as default and not
> later by a user. Perhaps one way could be to install it in virtualbox
> and do the above command and then diff the output but that takes time
> and packages change name between dist versions. There must be a list
> on what packages to install on the Install CD that one can diff?
> 
> / Jonas
> 

No. The opposite actually.

I just did a:
'dpkg -l > list-of-installed-packages_details' and manually went through it and deleted 
everything except those packages I remember installing (most were really obvious - it's real 
handy having the extra details listed).

Blessings,

Nigel