aptmetapackagespackage-management
How do I see a list of packages I manually (really manually, as in I typed them in) installed?
I want to exclude packages that were installed as a result of being dependencies of other packages that I manually typed in.
For example, if I ran the command:
sudo apt-get install mysql-server
and as a result mysql-common was installed, I want to only see mysql-server in the list and not mysql-common.
I've searched for an answer and found many that were close but not exactly what I want.
It's a quick hack, but this gets me very close:
manifest='http://releases.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-13.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.manifest'
comm -2 -3 \
<(apt-mark showmanual | sort) \
<(curl --silent "$manifest" | grep --perl-regexp --only-matching '^[\w-.+]+' | sort)
You'll have to look up the package manifest for your version of Ubuntu from the releases server.
This method still returns a few packages that were selected via the Language Support installation prompt and the install third-party software checkbox, but depending on your needs it might be good enough.
Since no answer using apt has been found, I would suggest going into Synaptic Package Manager, click on the Status button at lower left then click on Installed (manual) at upper left to see a list of installed packages.
Then you can output a list from Synaptic with File | Save Markings As and save the file where you can work with it.
Best Answer
That do what you want: