From
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/288024/how-can-i-get-a-list-of-packages-that-i-have-installed-using-apt-get
This will give you a list of
packages that have been installed, in the order that they were installed:
zgrep -h ' install ' /var/log/dpkg.log* | sort | awk '{print $4}'
However, only the last 12 months of
/var/log/dpkg.log* files are kept by default. To change this, edit
/etc/logrotate.d/. For example, change
rotate 12 to
rotate 1200 to keep the last 1200 months (100 years) worth - effectively forever, never delete the old logs.
Use
dpkg to list
all packages installed on a system:
dpkg --get-selections
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