[plug] Redhat/RPM dependency question

[Greg Mildenhall]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Arkem wrote:
> > The trick is to create your own list of which packages are on your
> > distro CD-set.
> >   Try "rpm -qp --filesbypkg  <dir>/*.rpm  > my-list-of-rpm-files.txt"
> This touches something I've been wanting to do but have had no idea
> how to do under Debian. How can I tell apt to give me a list of
> installed packages? (as a text file)

Don't know about apt, but try:

dpkg --get-selections

Is that what you're after?

-Greg Mildenhall