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When I go to the Ubuntu Software Center and click on Installed, I get a categorized list of all applications. It's something for example like Accessories (Disk, Text editor, ...), Developer tools (Printers, OpenJDK Java, ...), Games Graphics (SignPost, AisleRiot, ...), ... and so on.

I'd like to have the same list in a textual form in a file. Something like the example above.

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  • Using apt or aptitude several ways to list various packages. http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages Some other search terms: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/projects/aptitude/doc/en/ch02s03s05.html details on one application example using zim apt-cache show zim – oldfred Jul 21 '15 at 23:33
  • @oldfred: yes, that would generate a list of all packages, and all intentionally installed applications (with aptitude search '~i!~M'), however, I still would be missing the categories (accessories, ...) – Quora Feans Jul 22 '15 at 00:02
  • I do not know where Software Center gets its categories. There also is this: http://superuser.com/questions/585304/how-to-retrieve-a-list-of-installed-packages-on-kubuntu-sorted-by-category – oldfred Jul 22 '15 at 04:06
  • I did find Section and this works: aptitude --display-format '%p' search '?Section(games)' Or show all apps: dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version} ${Section}\n' > filesystem.manifest – oldfred Jul 22 '15 at 15:39
  • @oldfred: that's not the same as the list shown by alacarte or classicmenu-indicator. Instead of a list with all games, I get a list with the packages like sgt-puzzles (pkg) and so on. – Quora Feans Jul 22 '15 at 20:28

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You can use an application that gives you all your apps in categorized. The app is called alacarte. Install it:

sudo apt-get install alacarte

You can find it from dash searching for "main menu" or "alacarte".

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  • Corresponding text files are in ~/.local/share/applications – xyz Jul 22 '15 at 08:12
  • My ~/.local/share/applications is kind of empty (wine stuff, and a little bit more). Running the alacarte shows much more than that. I wonder where the information above is stored. It shows the same information as classicmenu-indicator, but I don't manage to find the textual information for this one either. – Quora Feans Jul 22 '15 at 10:27