Does anyone knows how can I list manually installed packages with aptitude? Or something like the 'world' file in Gentoo.
What I mean is, when you install package A have deps package B and C, more later you install package D, E, F, that has deps G, H, etc.
And what I want is a way to see in a list, command line or whatever, what packages I INSTALLED,the packages A, D, E, and F. This packages where installed manually, by me.
So far the closest thing I can get is
As seen onCode:aptitude search '~i!~E' | grep -v "i A" | cut -d " " -f 4
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/462
However this method only gives me packages marked as manually installed, which is not the packages installed manually. The difference is, it listed all packages installed by Ubuntu installer, which are marked as manually installed but not manually installed.
I need the list of packages 'really' manually installed because the list of packages that are marked as manually installed doesn't help much when I switch from 32-bit to 64-bit or back, as package names are not exact match between them. It also is not helpful if I got a Ubuntu 9.10 new computer where i want to have my applications, when I only had an old computer with Ubuntu 8.04 (this indeed happened, I cannot upgrade that neither because ubuntu stopped ppc support by that time).
Thanks in advance!
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