Daily maintenance

[David Vincent]

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Derek Broughton wrote:
> I run this weekly:
> 
> aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' ' /etc/apt/installed.txt
> 
> (all on one line, of course) which gives me a convenient list of currently
> installed packages so that I can duplicate this setup on a new install.

hrm, that gives me an empty file.

sudo aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' '
/home/dvincent/installed.txt

do i need the sudo?  i've been wondering how to get a list of packages
like this.

- -d


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