List installed packages in Ubuntu

published on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 23:51

I found this over at the Ubuntu Forums, but since it took me forever to find, I'm dropping notes here.

In RPM-based distros, you can do 'rpm -qa > somefile.txt'. In Debian/Ubuntu, do this:

dpkg --get-selections > machineA.txt

In true apt fashion, if you then want to have machine B have all the software machine A has, do this:

dpkg --set-selections

Enjoy!

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Permalink Submitted by rowery (not verified) on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 04:32

- Thanks for the info

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