How to obtain list of installed packages

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 10 May 2016 11:52:07 -0700 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 5/10/2016 11:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > Writing this request takes much long than a Google search for e.g.
> >
> >    apt-get package list
> >
> > to get as the first hit
> >
> >    http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages
> >
> > IIRC Synaptic provides this by GUI, but I don't remember were and
> > don't have access to it at the moment.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> 
> That doesn't work although your link has some good answers.

This works:

dpkg-query -l \* | grep ^ii

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