[PLUG] Getting a list of installed programs

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:26:39PM -0800, Tim Garton wrote:
> I think that will print out all packages installed on his system, not
> just the ones he has specified.  I believe something like:
> 
> sudo apt-get install deborphan
> deborphan -a -p 1
> 
> this will print out all packages installed on your system that aren't
> dependencies of another package.  

That's a pretty nice command set.  on my systems it yeilds ~130 packages,
a very manageable number. 

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