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

From	<tomas@tuxteam.de>
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Subject	Re: How can I find packages manually installed using "dpkg -i"?
Date	2023-10-02 16:10 +0200
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:52:39AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2023 at 09:43:39AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> > On 2023-10-02 at 09:28, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> > > Yeah, the one for which I had to manually use "dpkg -i".
> > 
> > That information is not tracked.
> > 
> > What is tracked is "the package versions known to be available from each
> > registered repository" and "the package versions which are installed".
> 
> There *is* tracking.  Packages can be marked as "automatically installed"
> or not.  The problem is, the marking is not consistent with user
> expectations.

But not if you use dpkg directly (dpkg doesn't even resolve dependencies,
but just gives up when some aren't met). That's why I proposed comparing
apt logs and dpkg logs -- things in the latter but not in the former were
probably installed with straight dpkg.

It probably ain't straightforward, though. And the logs might have been
rotated out anyway.

Cheers
-- 
t

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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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