[plug] debian/ubuntu package list copy for new install

Michael Holland myk at myk.id.au
Tue Oct 10 14:50:35 WST 2006


On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This may help:
> # COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l

Hmmm ... and pipe it through cut|grep etc.?!  Maybe an awk script?
There HAS to be a better way.

'dpkg-query -W | cut -f1 ' looked better, until I realised it included
uninstalled packages.



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