[ubuntu-in] keeping track of installed pkgs

[Vivek Khurana]

On 10/8/07, nan budh <nanbudh at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> friends
> is there any standard way of knowing what all softwares i have installed on
> my ubuntu6.06 uptill now? what i mean is that the softwares which i
> installed thru synaptic can be uninstalled thru it too. but there are some
> which i compiled and installed directly. They donot show up on synaptic or
> in Add/Remove softwares utility. Again I suspect that not all which i
> installed thru apt-get show up on synaptic either. How should i keep track?
> One thing that worries me is that when i upgrade my ubuntu version i shall
> have to download all of them again. i have read somewhere there is a utility
> which creates a CD of all the inntalled pkgs.
> BTW what is the ideal directory to install a program to when i am doing it
> myself.i am currenlty doing it to /opt. is it ok?


 It is not recommended to install softwares directly as it is not
possible to keep track of the softwares installed by compiling from
the source. One of the roles of package manager is to keep track of
all the softwares installed using the package manager. The best way to
keep track of all the softwares installed from source is to install
them in one parent directory such as /opt.
 Btw, packages installed with apt-get will show up in synaptic as
synaptic is a wrapper around  apt-get.

regards
VK
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