List of user installed apps

[Sascha Güthling]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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

OK, I created two lists; one with the command dpkg --get-selections
and the other with the command dpkg -l. In both lists there are
packages marked differently from the majority. In the list created
with dpkg --get-selections some of the packages are marked with
"deinstall" while the rest is marked "install". In the other list it's
an "rc" at the beginning of the line instead of "ii". I noticed that
most if not all of these packages where installed by me and not the
initial setup. But there are other packages that I installed that are
not marked like that.

So what does this tell me?

There seems to be nothing wrong with these packages.

Thanks for your answers.

Cheers,
Sascha