where is the list of installed packages kept?

[stan]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 07:40:21AM -0800, Nick Stinemates wrote:
> 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.
> 
So, the list is in /etc tree? Wow, that suprises me.


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