How to make a list of installed packages

[Texstar]

From a terminal, at the prompt;

rpm -qa | sort > installed.txt

This will give a list of all installed packages, in a text file, (installed.txt) in alphabetical order, complete with version.

[Linuzoid]

Very Cool!  . Worked like a charm. Thanks Tex.

[Joble]

There used to be a complete how-to go from that list, taken from a no-network computer, to a computer on the net, get the required updates from the repos and update the computer that did not have net access.  I don't remember if that was at hack or here, but I can't find it now.  There's been a couple posts asking for this kind of thing.

[aherkey]

If you work on several servers and a command not found on one of them rather than opening synaptic and hunting down which package the command is bundled in, I use rpm -qf path/filename on the server that has it already installed.

For example nslookup is not installed on one of your servers. Go to the server where it is installed and run this command:
   rpm -qf $(which nslookup)
   bind-utils-9.6.0-1pclos2007
Now go to the other server and install bind-utils.

-Andy

[AndrzejL]

You can also use

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rpm -qa > installed_list.txt
and

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rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n > installed_sorted_list.txt
OR for those with konsolephobia:



Open synaptic and click on [File] > [Save markings as]. Now when new window comes up type in "installed_packages" (skip the "") in the [Name:] box and then click on the [DESKTOP] button on the left. Next you have to mark the box next to [Save full state, not only changes] at the bottom and then click on [SAVE].

This will create a file on a roots desktop with a list of all packages installed on your system. You can use this list if you want to clone your system on other machine .

Andy

[everge48]

Nice one, 10-Q!

[wedgetail]

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,23721.0.html

If you have come this far you may like to see the 'the expanded topic' on the same interesting topic.

In case you found the file /var/log/rpmpkgs and use this to compare with above, be careful there seem to be a slight difference

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rpm -qa | sort > installed.txt
In my case sorts so files with first character capital letter will be first, ie VariCAD and varicad will not be listed together.  In the log file /var/log/rpmpkgs those too will be together from what I can see.    

Using the Synaptic method above:
The file created is not sorted and has a second column with the word "install" when I ran it.