[ubuntu-in] List Of Installed Software

[Ramnarayan.K]

2010/6/18 Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] <abhishek.amberkar at gmail.com>:
>> dpkg --get-selections | awk '{print "sleep 0.5 && echo" " "$1}' | bash
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> Above command lists the packages which are marked "deinstall"
>
> As `man dpkg' says "deinstall" means
> The package is selected for deinstallation (i.e. we want to remove all
> files, except configuration files).

not sure what you mean - cannot see deinstall mentioned anywhere in the command
>
> Following command gives list of all installed pacakges
>
> dpkg -l | grep ^i | awk '{print $2}'

Did a comparision of the results of both commands

the first gives me 3055 packages and the second 3084.

about 29 packages more in the latter

so why this difference and what does the deinstall mean ??

ram