Diogene Laerce wrote: > Is there a simple way to get the list of packages installed since the fresh > installation of deby ? How long ago was your fresh installation? There are backups of the dpkg package status kept in /var/backups that go back a week. And if you have a system backup you could retrieve older copies going back as far as your backups. Those files list what is installed on the machine and could be used to make this deduction. $ zcat /var/backups/dpkg.status.6.gz | grep-dctrl -s Package -n "install ok installed" | sort > /tmp/list.prev $ grep-status -s Package -n "install ok installed" | sort > /tmp/list.now $ comm -3 /tmp/list.prev /tmp/list.now However it would also be easy to generate a package list for a default installation. Since any default installation on the same hardware would have the same packages installed. It is a repeatable operation. Then you could compare what is now installed to what is installed in a default installation. If you told me your system architecture and what selections you chose for your system I would probably be able to generate a list that would be very close to accurate. It would be different due to motherboard driver differences but perhaps those are not the packages you are interested in knowing about? Bob
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