Restoring Packages after Upgrade

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

I've been looking around for a way to see what packages I installed after a clean install of 16.04.2.

I've read this: Find all user-installed packages (https://superuser.com/questions/48374/find-all-user-installed-packages)

I have tried Aptik, but I have a (now) usused encrypted folder in / and am doing a clean install of 18.04 so I won't want that encryption stuff replace or restored by Aptik.

I've used the cli from the Superuser post, above and get a long list of packages that includes all the *lib* that the OS uses.

I'm looking for a list of all that I installed only. Like LibreOffice, GTKHash, GSMart.

Can someone point me in a direction?

[sevendogsbsd]

Not sure if you've seen this thread:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/2389/generating-list-of-manually-installed-packages-and-querying-individual-packages?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=google_rich_qa&utm_campaign=google_rich_qa

Doesn't appear to be perfect but may get you close.