List of user installed apps

[Jonas Norlander]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Nigel Ridley<nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> 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).

That was what i was thinking. I see now that i wrote the opposite :-)

/ Jonas