Ubuntu – PPA spring cleaning — list packages installed from a PPA

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It is often suggested to remove or purge all of your PPAs when doing a version upgrade; I often have a lot of troubles remembering which PPA are installed and which packages are "owned" by a particular PPA — you sometime install a PPA but that does not mean that you have installed all packages from it.

For the list of PPA there are quite a lot of good scripts around; and for discovering the packages really installed from a PPA you can use apt-cache policy or similar commands.

But — what about a one-stop script to list all your installed PPAs and all the packages you have installed from them?

Best Answer

The following script will give you a list like the following: 

PPA:tualatrix/ppa
--->  ubuntu-tweak
PPA:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
--->  gimp
--->  gimp-data
--->  gimp-help-common
--->  gimp-help-en
--->  gimp-help-en-gb
--->  gimp-help-es
--->  gimp-help-it
--->  gimp-plugin-registry
--->  libgimp2.0
--->  libopenjpeg-dev
--->  libopenjpeg5

Script following (copy it to a file and make it executable):

#! /bin/bash
#
list_all_packages_repos() {
apt-cache policy $(dpkg -l | awk 'NR >= 6 { print $2 }') |
  awk '/^[^ ]/    { split($1, a, ":"); pkg = a[1] }
    nextline == 1 { nextline = 0; printf("%-40s %-50s %s\n", pkg, $2, $3) }
    /\*\*\*/      { nextline = 1 }'
    }

list_packages_of() { #1 is the tmpfile, $2 is the ppa regexp
    grep "$2" "$1" | awk '{print "---> ", $1}'
}

# cache all packages files now 

tmpfile=/tmp/list_pcks.$$.txt
list_all_packages_repos > $tmpfile

# listppa Script to get all the PPA installed on a system ready to share for reininstall
for APT in $(find /etc/apt/ -name "*.list"); do
    grep -o "^deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/[a-z0-9\-]\+/[a-z0-9\-]\+" "$APT" | while read ENTRY ; do
        USER=$(echo "$ENTRY" | cut -d/ -f4)
        PPA=$(echo "$ENTRY" | cut -d/ -f5)
        echo  PPA:$USER/$PPA
    list_packages_of "$tmpfile" "$USER/$PPA"
    done
done

rm "$tmpfile"
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