How to find what 'new' packages have been installed?

[Chris G]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:49:36AM -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 11/12/2008 09:30 AM, Chris G wrote:
> > Is there a way to find out what packages have been installed by the
> > user (i.e. me) after the inital installation of an Ubuntu system?
> > 
> > I like to record what I have added (and why) in the way of
> > customisation so that the next time I build a system I have some hints
> > available. 
> > 
> 
> Open Synaptic and use File|History.
> 
> You can then copy & paste to a gedit file and add notes & save for your
> records.
> 
> I'm sure that Synaptic gets the logs from somewhere, so perhaps someone
> can adivse & you can then access directly.
> 
Synaptic's history is only its own history, I tend to do most things
from the command line using apt-get so they don't appear in synaptic.

-- 
Chris Green