[ubuntu-in] keeping track of installed pkgs

[Onkar Shinde]

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?
> regards
> nanbudh

If you are installing package from compile i.e. the usual ./configure,
make install way then first install 'checkinstall' using synaptic.
Then instead of 'make install' you can do 'checkinstall -D make
install'. This will create a deb package of the program and install
it. So it can be tracked through synpatic.



Onkar
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