[sclug] Where does apt keep its list of installed software?

[Simon Huggins]

[ Removed the OT from your highly on-topic subject ;) ]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 03:16:33PM +0100, Ian Park wrote:
> but I really want to back up the list of apps I'd installed. All the
> searching I've done has led me to instructions on how to use apt-get
> or Synaptic to produce a list of installed software, but that isn't a
> lot of help if I can't boot into the Ubuntu system...

So Neil and Dickon are right that --get-selections is best but if you
can't get that to tell you about the underlying Ubuntu (I think it; I
think you'll be fine) then in answer to your subject line you want to
grub around in (and possibly backup) /var/lib/dpkg in particular
/var/lib/dpkg/status

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