where is the list of installed packages kept?

[Nick Stinemates]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 03:24:35PM -0500, stan wrote:
> I'm rebuilding a machine, and I forget to get a list of the installed
> packages on the original one. I do howeverr have a tarball of the whole
> root filesystem on that machine.
> 
> Where in that can I look for the list of installed .debs?
> 
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As long as you have the /etc directory, there's an apt-get command you can run to re-install all of the packages..

I can't think of it at the moment, but I know it's possible.

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