[PLUG] Getting a list of installed programs

[Aaron]

/etc/cups/ppd/

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On Nov 1, 2009, at 9:45 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>  
wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:26:09 -0800
> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:32:39 -0800
>> Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us> dijo:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Indeed, that helps a lot. Looking at the output, it doesn't seem to  
>> get
>> everything, but I think it gets a lot.
>>
>> I'm also going to write down manually everything in the Gnome
>> Applications menu, and everything in my panels.
>>
>> It also occurred to me to use the Synaptic utility to make a script  
>> to
>> install the same applications on another computer. But rather than  
>> use
>> the script as a script I'll just make a printout of it. We'll see  
>> if it
>> turns out to be just a list of 2003 installed packages.
>
> Debian Squeeze is installing as I write this on my desktop computer.
> Y'all cross your fingers, 'k?
>
> Meantime, does anyone know where installed printers are located? I
> mean, if I copy ~/ from the Ubuntu disk to the new Debian disk, will  
> my
> printers be there as they were in Ubuntu? This is a serious  
> question. I
> have eight laser printers which I use for various different print  
> jobs.
> Configuring them all anew would be time-consuming.
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