Debian packages: distinguish “requested install” from “installed to satisfy dependencies”?

Aptitude runs as a commandline-only, gui-less program too. Try: aptitude search grub The information will be there.

Excellent! I digged into this and found that 'aptitude search ~M' will list all automatically installed packages. – Yaakov Belch Nov 6 '09 at 9:42.

Search ~i yields installed packages. Using grep to discard packages with A gives packages not automatically installed, so it almost answers the original question. But it includes packages that belong to the original distribution, so its not completely sorted out.

In my case, its still 1500 packages, a set I can deal with.

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