Saving List of Progs?

[oaxacamatt1]

Greetings all,

Does anybody remember which command to use to write / save a list of programs that I have loaded on my Ubuntu box. I thought it might be the 'apt-get' command but the man page does mention anything like that.

Cheers,
M

[stillious]

dpkg --get-selections > software

This will give you an output file called software with the list of programs.

[oaxacamatt1]

Hey maciasoo,
yea the info you gave was on target but used it fully, in a sense. I also want to use this list to re-install the progs that had before. So i haven't looked into the 'converse.' in other words how to use the list to re-install.
cheeers,
m

[philinux]

In synaptic you can do it. File save markings as. Tick the Save Full state.

Or as mentioned above.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fe...esFreshInstall

This is old but the commands are relevant. Needs sudo.

Have a search around.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169062