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   Subject: Re: Synaptic - does it make logs?   
   Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:14:49 -0700   
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   CBFalconer was all like, you know, and then said something like a ...   
      
   > With that preamble, has synaptic kept a log of the installations so   
   > that I can simply repeat it after the re-install.  And, if so,   
   > where.   
      
   There's a File > History in Synaptic. Or, dpkg -l in a terminal. Could   
   send the output to a file like this (I do this in my user ~/):    
   dpkg -l > installed.packages070122   
      
   As for a "script" - no, none I know of, but you could write one.   
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