Is there a command in debian etch to show the list of installed packages?

I can't seem to find this command and it's driving me crazy.

It's like what windows has.

The add/remove programs to show everything currently installed.

Is there something like this in debian that shows everything that's installed?

Thanks

The Synaptic Package Manager in Gnome will show you all installed apps on your Debian system. It's in the Debian Main Menu under --> Administration --> Synaptic, I think.

Luck!

~Eric

I forgot to say that I'm using CMD line only.

aptitude search ~i

That may only include packages installed by aptitude, so an "aptitude keep-all" might be a good idea.

dpkg --get-selections >> myselections.txt(you can use any name) will output a list of packages that you have installed to a text file.

@craigevil:

I tried both methods. Interesting differences in the output.

Also, experimentation reveals that the output from aptitude is not limited to programs that were installed using it.

Not sure about the aptitude list, but with the one dpkg outputs you can use apt to reinstall the list.

apt-get install $(</home/craig/myselections.txt)

Interesting that aptitude outputs the same packages even though I have only used aptitude maybe one time.

Here's another view with apt-show-versions

Very good tool for knowing what you have from stable/unstable/testing


And here's another one:

apt-show-versions

g++-4.0 4.0.3-7 installed: No available version in archive
knet 0.5+0.6beta1-3 installed: No available version in archive
there are probably another 20 packages that show the same thing, some I understand because they are Kanotix packages and I no longer use the Kanotix repos.

kasablanca 0.4.0.2+cvs20051202-1 newer than version in archive how the heck is it newer?


weird there are quite a few packages that same the same thing. Neat that it shows everything else as uptodate

Probably that it considers 0.4.0.2+cvs20051202-1 superior to 0.4.0.2-2 which is the last version.
(+cvs20051202-1 > 2)
dunno

edit:
what gives
apt-show-versions -a kasablanca

If you have installed them from experimental or by source then they have a bigger number than what is in your archive (in case you now have removed experimental from your sources.list)
So this is normal IMO

Nope. Nothing from experimental or from source, pretty much everything is from Sid other than the few packages from Kanotix/Sidux.

apt-show-versions -a kasablanca
kasablanca 0.4.0.2+cvs20051202-1 install ok installed
kasablanca 0.4.0.2-2 unstable
kasablanca 0.4.0.2+cvs20051202-1 newer than version in archive

The few packages that show "No available version in archive" all show "Now" when I take a look at them in Synaptic, and all show up in Installed (local or obsolete) , so I am thinking most of them are left over Kanotix packages, other than gYachi, Frostwire and Opera which are .deb packages that I installed. SO its all good.