I want to dump all installed packages on a system which uses
dpkg.Up to now I use
dpkg -l.But it has one draw back: Sorting the result does not make sense.
Head:
root@aptguettler:~# LANG=C dpkg-query -l| sort | head +++-===========================================================-=================================================-============-================================================================================ Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ii a11y-profile-manager-indicator 0.1.10-0ubuntu3 amd64 Accessibility Profile Manager - Unity desktop indicatorTail:
root@aptguettler:~# LANG=C dpkg-query -l| sort | tail rc texlive-publishers-doc 2015.20160320-1 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-publishers rc texlive-science 2015.20160320-1 all TeX Live: Natural and computer sciences rc texlive-science-doc 2015.20160320-1 all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science rc tpconfig 3.1.3-15 amd64 touchpad device configuration utility rc ttf-indic-fonts-core 1:0.5.14ubuntu1 all Core collection of free fonts for languages of India rc ttf-punjabi-fonts 1:0.5.14ubuntu1 all Free TrueType fonts for the Punjabi language rc unity-lens-friends 0.1.3+14.04.20140317-0ubuntu1 amd64 Friends scope for unity rc webaccounts-extension-common 0.5-0ubuntu2.14.04.1 amd64 Ubuntu Online Accounts browser extension - common files rc xfonts-mathml 6ubuntu1 all Type1 Symbol font for MathML | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pendI keep a history of this output via
etckeeper(Related question with answer log hwinfo output with etckeeper).Here the things I would like to improve:
- The ascii-art lines are not nice. The should be removed.
- The first two characters (for example
ii) should be removed or appear at the end.On rpm based systems
rpm -qadoes exactly what I need.
Answer
Try
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v deinstall
If you need the exact version of the packets in the output you could do:
dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | awk '{print $2 "\t" $3}'
This only prints the columns 2 and 3. This also only lists installed packages, no uninstalled or others.
Edit: Another option is dpkg-query:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package} ${Version} ${Architecture} ${db:Status-Abbrev} \n'
Where –showformat (or -f) defines what columns you want to display, in this case the package name, version and architecture and the short status (e.g. “ii” and “rc”) at the end, the “\n” is the linebreak.
By the way, the “ii” defines installed packages, “rc” are uninstalled packages, that’s why I used grep and awk to filter the uninstalled packages out.
If you’re feeling fancy you can add column widths aswell like this:
dpkg-query --show --showformat='${Package;-50} ${Version;-40} ${Architecture;-5} ${db:Status-Abbrev} \n'
A negative column width means the orientation is left, positive means right.
Be careful though as the package name will be cut short if the width is smaller than the number of characters in a package name.
I’m not really sure for which purpose you need the list. If you just want to have a list which is well readable there is nothing wrong with awk or the other commands, if you want to have a “backup” of your software to install on another machine, dpkg --get-selections (without any piping) is the way to go, see https://wiki.debian.org/ListInstalledPackages
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Source : Link , Question Author : guettli , Answer Author : Broco
