[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'. 

Any way i can pipe the output into a text file -

tried dpkg -la |less in the hope that i could copy paste each section
but its quite tiresome so any shorter way.

Why i need it is because my current Ubuntu 6.06 is really well
configured so am requesting a friend to get me a dvd with all the
packages that this one has (atleast).

Also I don't have access to the bandwidth required to apt-get everything
in need.

Thanks
ram