Fwd: How to obtain list of installed packages

Bret Busby bret.busby at gmail.com
Fri May 20 16:33:39 UTC 2016


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From: Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 18:01:15 +0800
Subject: Re: How to obtain list of installed packages
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>

On 20/05/2016, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2016 16:27:16 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>the HDD has the partitions that existed when the system was purchased
>>(about four or five, I believe)
>
> They are unlikely Linux journaling file systems. This shouldn't be
> related to a warning or error, but it might be better to use Linux file
> systems.
>
>>If I knew how to reproduce the particular error message, it would
>>probably be quite helpful, in all of this, as I may be completely
>>wrong, in my perception of the need to rebuild the file systems on the
>>HDD.
>
> When did you see the error message? By startup messages? When running a
> program?
>

I do not remember - otherwise, I would have an idea as to how to
reproduce the error message. I am not being sarcastic - I simply do
not remember the context from which the error message appeared.

> What do you get when running on or all of the below programs?
>   sudo parted -l

"
bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$ sudo parted -l
sudo: unable to resolve host bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE
[sudo] password for bret:
Model: ATA WDC WD10JPVX-22J (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name
       Flags
 1      1049kB  420MB   419MB                   Basic data partition
       hidden, bios_grub
 2      420MB   735MB   315MB   fat32           EFI system partition
       boot, esp
 3      735MB   869MB   134MB                   Microsoft reserved
partition  msftres
 4      869MB   101GB   100GB   ntfs            Basic data partition
       msftdata
 6      101GB   201GB   100GB   ext4            Debian 7 OS
       boot, esp
 7      201GB   301GB   100GB   ext4            Debian7Home
       msftdata
 8      301GB   333GB   32.0GB  linux-swap(v1)
 9      333GB   433GB   100GB   ext4            Data1-ext4
       msftdata
10      433GB   533GB   100GB   ext3            Debian6 OS
       boot, esp
11      533GB   633GB   100GB   ext2            Data2-ext2
       msftdata
12      633GB   738GB   105GB   ext4
       msftdata
13      738GB   843GB   105GB   ext4
       msftdata
14      843GB   893GB   50.7GB  ext3            Debian6 Home
       msftdata
15      893GB   932GB   39.0GB  ext4
16      932GB   982GB   49.7GB  ext4
 5      982GB   1000GB  18.3GB  ntfs            Basic data partition
       hidden, diag


bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$

"


>   sudo fdisk -l

"
bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$ sudo fdisk -l
sudo: unable to resolve host bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE
Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram12: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram13: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes


Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes




Disk /dev/sda: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 1C378A0E-EC1F-4E9B-8B5A-55B8505336D0

Device          Start        End   Sectors  Size Type
/dev/sda1        2048     821247    819200  400M BIOS boot
/dev/sda2      821248    1435647    614400  300M EFI System
/dev/sda3     1435648    1697791    262144  128M Microsoft reserved
/dev/sda4     1697792  197010291 195312500 93.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda5  1917870080 1953523711  35653632   17G Windows recovery environment
/dev/sda6   197011456  392323071 195311616 93.1G EFI System
/dev/sda7   392323072  587634687 195311616 93.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda8   587634688  650135551  62500864 29.8G Linux swap
/dev/sda9   650135552  845447167 195311616 93.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda10  845447168 1040758783 195311616 93.1G EFI System
/dev/sda11 1040758784 1236070399 195311616 93.1G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda12 1236070400 1440870399 204800000 97.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda13 1440870400 1645670399 204800000 97.7G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda14 1645670400 1744717765  99047366 47.2G Microsoft basic data
/dev/sda15 1744717824 1820889698  76171875 36.3G Linux filesystem
/dev/sda16 1820891136 1917870079  96978944 46.2G Linux filesystem

Partition table entries are not in disk order.
bret at bret-Aspire-V3-772-UbuntuMATE:~$

"

>   sudo gparted

As the output is via a GUI from which copying and pasting can not be
done, I have attached a screenshot of the output.


>
> Take a look at
>   man fsck
> or perhaps it's easier to read
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilesystemTroubleshooting
> I didn't read the help, but I noticed that "touch /forcefsck" perhaps
> should be run as "sudo touch /forcefsck".
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

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-- 

Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

..............

"So once you do know what the question actually is,
 you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
 Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
 "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
 A Trilogy In Four Parts",
 written by Douglas Adams,
 published by Pan Books, 1992

....................................................




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