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Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?

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On 05/10/2023 13:15, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 03 Oct 2023 at 19:58:57 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote:
>> (apt-mark showauto ; apt-mark showmanual) > apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
>> dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package}\n' | grep -v -F -f
>> apt-thinks-you-installed.txt > rest.txt
> (I've added the omitted -f.)
> 
>> The file "rest.txt" should have a list of packages installed that were
>> NOT installed via apt.  With any luck, it is small enough to examine
>> manually.
> 
> I don't think your grep will work correctly. apt-thinks-you-installed.txt
> contains patterns, and some of those patterns are very short, for example:
> an at bc dc di gv jq mc pv tk acl ant apt bbe cpp ftp git gpg gpm kbd
> ...

Doesn't the -F option mean grep is treating each line in apt-thinks-you-installed.txt as a fixed string, not as a pattern?

However, running the above commands here results in a short (~10) list of packages none of which I have installed.
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${db:Status-Abbrev} ${Package}\n' outputs a few lines that don't start with  "ii" like all the installed packages. I guess they need to be filtered out?

-- 
John

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  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-02 12:20 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-02 12:20 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-02 15:30 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? "Marco M." <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-10-02 15:50 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-10-02 15:50 +0200
        Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-02 16:00 +0200
          Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-02 16:10 +0200
            Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-03 06:30 +0200
              Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-10-03 08:30 +0200
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  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-02 13:00 +0200
  Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 05:00 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 05:20 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-10-04 09:50 +0200
    Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-10-05 06:20 +0200
      Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2023-10-05 08:10 +0200
        Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2023-10-05 13:00 +0200

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