The goal is to make a list of manually installed packages, then be able to install that list on another Linux computer.<\/p>\n
http:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/132614\/how-to-list-manually-installed-software-packages-in-ubuntu<\/a><\/p>\n aptitude can do what are you looking for and much more, actually.<\/p>\n aptitude search ‘?installed ?not(?automatic)’<\/em><\/p>\n Or shorter:<\/p>\n aptitude search ‘~i!~M’<\/em><\/p>\n will list all the packages installed manually. None of the dependent (i.e., like mysql-data, or *-common, that are installed automatically) packages will be listed.<\/p>\n If you want just package names, use -F ‘%p’ parameter.<\/p>\n You can check out search patterns reference<\/a>, there’s virtually no criteria it can’t search for.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now to take that command and output it to a file<\/p>\n aptitude search ‘~i!~M’ >\u00a0 > ~\/installed-software.log<\/em><\/p>\n Then use that to install the same software to a new machine<\/p>\n aptitude install $(cat ~\/installed-software.log | awk ‘{print $1}’)<\/em><\/p>\n Another way to install is this<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For a basic overview of Linux package commands:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.cyberciti.biz\/tips\/linux-debian-package-management-cheat-sheet.html<\/a><\/p>\n And more extensive reading\/commands discussion<\/p>\nsudo dpkg --set-selections < ~\/packages && apt-get dselect-upgrade<\/code><\/em><\/p>\n