Package Listing

[Clay Weber]

On Thursday, January 29, 2015 01:39:43 PM Bill Vance wrote:
> Howdy;
> 
> I'm not sure which prog might be best for this, (apt, apt-get, etc.),
> or even if it can be done, but is there a command that will return a
> complete listing of all the programs that have been downloaded, since
> installation day one?
> 
> Bill

Muon package manager has a history function (and I will guess that synaptic 
does as well), but that will not include anything installed manually (ie a deb 
file individually downloaded and installed ). I don't know how it looks or 
what info is displayed as this feature is broken at the moment in Plasma 5. 
Muon also has a "Save Installed Package List" which is a backup of the list of 
packages installed on your system, that can be restored after a  fresh 
install. 


Apt's history files are found in /var/log/apt
and dpkg history is at /var/log/dpkg.log
There would be some filtering needed to make these usable for your need.
I found a few possibly useful scripts here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/21657/show-apt-get-installed-packages-history-via-commandline
and here
http://serverfault.com/questions/175504/how-do-i-get-the-history-of-apt-get-install-on-unbuntu




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