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Am Dienstag, 22. Juni 2021, 15:30:35 CEST schrieb Christian:
Hi, 

maybe this is the command you need? From an older doku:
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3.3.10 Record/copy system configuration

To make a local copy of the package selection states:

$ dpkg --get-selections "*" > myselections

 # or use \*

“*” makes myselections include package entries for “purge” too.

You can transfer this file to another computer, and install it there with:

dselect update
dpkg --set-selections <myselections
apt-get -u dselect-upgrade
or dselect install
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Hope this helps.

Best

Hans


> 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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  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
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          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
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