List of all installed packages

[Derek Broughton]

Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:

> On do, 2006-08-24 at 08:10 -0700, John Leonard wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a way to produce a list of all
>> installed packages?
> 
> dpkg --get-selections

OK, just because there've been so many choices already:

        aptitude search '~i'

If you always use aptitude for installing, 

        aptitude search '~i !~M'

is even better because it omits the ones that will be installed
automatically.
-- 
derek