How to obtain list of installed packages

[Justin Nichols]

Forgive me if I'm out to lunch, but would the following work?

sudo dpkg --get-selections



On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 3:00 PM Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2016 02:16:34 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> >I believe that a new installation of the operating system, is needed
>
> If the Linux install isn't broken, but e.g. the partitioning is that
> broken, that it can't be repaired without repartitioning the complete
> HDD, you still could make a backup of the complete Linux install and
> after repartitioning, restore the complete install from the backup. A
> backup could be made without any special tool, a simple cp (copy) or
> tar does work, you only need to do it from another Linux install, e.g.
> from a live media, with root privileges.
>
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