The idea on U&L is that you improve your answer (or question in case you had posted one) by editing the post, instead of hiding valuable information in comments. As I would cut and paste the command the 26 bytes less is not so interesting, but the fact that your output is sorted really belongs in the answer itself. If such an improvement was as a reaction to a request for clarification a simple 'updated my answer' as comment will do, the commenter (in this case me) will get notified of that comment. I think the terseness also is the cause that someone downvoted your answer. – Jul 12 '17 at 21:25 •. This relies on aptitude, but the following will give you a list of packages that are manually installed, i.e. Aren't installed just because of dependency: aptitude search -F%p '~i! Dcr-hc14e Driver Windows 7. ~M' Depending on how the image is setup, it will probably also include some installed by the base system.

After running apt-get upgrade, I get a list of the packages that will be upgraded. I would like to know the version number for one of these packages. (Not the current. Apt: find installed packages with given. Check if I have packages installed say with version 2.6.38-8. Kairosoft Dungeon Village Ipa more. For version number of the package I.

You can get rid of a fair bit of those by switching them to being automatically installed, then just mark as manual the few you want to keep despite not having anything depending on them. This is easy to do with M inside aptitude on a bare system.