find-manual-installed-local-deb-package

Intro

Bash script to find all manually installed local deb-packages.

Steps to find these packages:

1. Remove all old package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists/
2. Update all packe lists from current sources.list, i.e. run apt-get update
3. Find all currently installed packages.
4. Find all available packages from updated /var/lib/apt/lists - files.
5. Find all packages that are found in step 3 BUT NOT found in step 4 (difference set of installed packages and available packages)

Note: Step 1 and Step 2 need root privileges.

Installation

Clone

git clone git@github.com:pepe79/find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.git

OR Download

wget -O find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.zip https://github.com/pepe79/find-manual-installed-local-deb-package/archive/master.zip
unzip find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.zip
rm find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.zip

Usage

cd find-manual-installed-local-deb-package
chmod a+x find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.sh
./find-manual-installed-local-deb-package.sh

Example output

Updating package information...
Locally installed packages outside of current apt-get sources list:

android-studio
code
google-talkplugin
hll2340dcupswrapper
hll2340dlpr
icaclient
libpng12-0
libvpx1
linux-headers-4.3.3-040303
linux-headers-4.3.3-040303-generic
linux-image-3.19.0-31-generic
linux-image-4.3.3-040303-generic
linux-image-extra-3.19.0-31-generic
primetime
spotify-client
sublime-text
virtualbox-5.1
zoom