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

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?
Date	2023-10-05 13:00 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2023 at 03:00:20PM +0900, John Crawley wrote:
> 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?

Correct.  You're probably looking for -x instead of adding anchors.

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How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> - 2023-10-02 12:10 +0200
  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
          Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2023-10-02 16:10 +0200
  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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