[ubuntu-in] List of packages installed

[ramnarayan.k at gmail.com]

Onkar Shinde wrote:

> You can get a list of such packages with 'dpkg -la'. Using command
> 'dpkg -la | wc -l' will tell you number of packages installed.

thanks
> 
> When you install something from source, it is not recorded in package
> database unless you are using checkinstall. So there is no way get
> list of such packages.
> 
so one us checkinstall or  should keep a record of what all is installed
that is not through apt-get etc.

thanks a tonne

regards
ram