I am currently investigating the http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/dpkg-query.1.html dpkg-query feature but it produces a list of hundreds of system/cmd type installs. Is there a way to get a list of the software users have installed - similar to the "Ubuntu Software > Installed" screen?
Alternatively if I could exclude dependencies that might give a more accurate list. For example I have the following 4 rows returned, however really this should only be apache2 server:
ii apache2 2.4.29-1ubun amd64 Apache HTTP Server
ii apache2-bin 2.4.29-1ubun amd64 Apache HTTP Server (modules and o
ii apache2-data 2.4.29-1ubun all Apache HTTP Server (common files)
ii apache2-utils 2.4.29-1ubun amd64 Apache HTTP Server (utility progr
I guess I'm after a more human-friendly list and not sure which settings I need.
Unfortunately the suggested alternatives of apt-mark showauto from questions such as Generating list of manually installed packages and querying individual packages still return un-human friendly results such as:
libwxbase3.0-0v5
libwxgtk3.0-0v5
libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5
I have also looked at How to list all installed packages as suggested.
aptitude search '~i!~M' gives me files including x11-utils update-inetd and perl-modules-5.26. None of these are applicable and this is also the case for /var/lib/apt/extended_states.
dconf-cli, dconf-gsettings-backend, dconf-servicereturned in my results yet I never installed those – Antony Jan 05 '21 at 12:36