Listing the packages on a debian based system

posted on 11:23 AM on Friday 27 September 2013

Having a couple of Ubuntu servers around for testing and development means that their packages can get out of sync and cause problems. Use the following command to list out the packages so that they can be synced. dpkg --get-selections For details and more information, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages.