List of user installed apps

[Willy Hamra]

2009/8/29 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Willy Hamra wrote:
>
>> 2009/8/28 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
>
>>>>> How do I get a list of user installed
>>>>> apps? (getting prepared 9.10).
>>>
>>
>> Nigel, i asked a similar question a while ago, let me quote from the
>> ancient thread:
>>
>
> Ack!!!
>
> How about:
>
>  aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | \
>   cut -f 2 -d ' ' > installed.txt
>
>
> There's really no need for your eyes to glaze over before accomplishing
> this...
> --
> derek
>
>

indeed Derek, but if you ever went back to my old thread, i asked that
question because i was an apt-get user and not an aptitude one :)
or does this command work even when i have never used aptitude? the
real question here is aptitude relying on the main package database
used also by apt-get to get me the results of the above command? or is
aptitude keeping track of user-installed packages in a database of its
own which apt-get doesn't use/modify?


-- 
Willy K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems