list installed packages by using apt

[Derek Broughton]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> On Monday 30 July 2007 11:00:54 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> aptitude search '~i !~M' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 2 -d ' '
> 
> +1!

I forgot to mention that the reason for the "!~M" switch (ignore the
automatically installed packages) is that you never need to keep a record
of them.  If you want to create a system with all the packages of another
system, this list will automatically pull in the same dependencies.
-- 
derek