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Hi altogether,

I'm new to *Debian* and so far I like it very much.

I´ve some (basic) knowledge regarding Linux-distros but this knowledge 
is based on the fact that I´ve been using Lubuntu (ubuntu derivative) 
for some time now.

I appreciate there are some differences between Ubuntu and Debian so I 
installed *Debian10 buster* as a VM - in order to gather some experience 
with it.

Up and until now I seem to be getting along with it just fine and I like 
the fact that it´s really lightweight.

I´ve got one question though:

Using (L)Ubuntu I had a certain _command_ at hand which helped me with 
fresh/clean installs.

Before converting to a new version I entered the following command (on 
the old OS) in the terminal:

/comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc 
/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)/

This gave me list of all packages which were post-installed after the 
initial setup.
All I had to do was putting the results of the command in a text file, 
say "*result.txt*".

The beauty of this command is that it produces the packages (programmes 
that I installed with apt) *without* any dependencies.

After installing the new system I used the command

/xargs -a /path-to-result.txt sudo apt-get install/

and my new system was on the same level as my old one before.

Trying out that very command in Debian however didn´t work as desired:

/comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc 
/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)//
//gzip: /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz: No such file or directory//
//adduser//
//anydesk//
//apt//
//...//
//zlib1g/

So there was some output but not the one I was looking for.

The file "*initial-status.gz*" indeed doesn´t exist in /var/log/installer.

Here are the contents of /var/log/installer in Debian:

/rosika2@debian ~> ll /var/log/installer///
//insgesamt 1,4M//
//drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K Jun 16 16:59 cdebconf///
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  20K Jun 16 16:59 hardware-summary//
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  160 Jun 16 16:59 lsb-release//
//-rw------- 1 root root 107K Jun 16 16:59 partman//
//-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  72K Jun 16 16:59 status//
//-rw------- 1 root root 1,2M Jun 16 16:59 syslog//
//-rw------- 1 root root  41K Jun 16 16:59 Xorg.0.log/

So my question is: Does this file exist at all (possibly using another 
path)?
Or is there another preferred way of getting info concerning all 
post-installed packages (without their dependencies)?

Thanks a lot for your help in advance.

Many greetings.
Rosika

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question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 15:40 +0200
  Re: question regarding post-installed packages Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-06-22 16:00 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 16:20 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-06-22 16:40 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
  Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-22 16:50 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 06:00 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 09:10 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 14:50 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-06-23 09:30 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-06-23 10:10 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 14:50 +0200
          Re: question regarding post-installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-06-23 17:00 +0200
    Re: question regarding post-installed packages Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-22 17:10 +0200
      Re: question regarding post-installed packages Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-22 17:40 +0200
        Re: question regarding post-installed packages Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-23 05:40 +0200

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