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In my 12.04 installation I've just discovered a whole lot of nice packages that I knew nothing about (or had forgotten). So - is there a facility that makes a catalog of all expressly installed packages, complete with a description of each package? I couldnt find any such facility. So I had to do all the grunt work myself **.

Richard H

**What I did:

  • First, «$ aptitude search '~i!~M'» made a list of expressly installed packages. Thank You for this to How to list all installed packages

  • Then a Perl script did «$ apt-cache show (name of package)» to "search and generate interesting output from the package metadata" for each package.

  • A second Perl script added information from all the README files in /usr/share/doc/

  • And third Perl script used Asciidoctor to format the results as an html file, A for accountsservice to Z for Zenity, complete with individual descriptions and links for each package.

My experience suggests that it would be nice if Ubuntu had a single facility that did all this, so as to offer all users such a catalog by default.

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Isn't Synaptic > Status > Installed the answer to what you are looking for?

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  • Thank you for quick reply and yes, Synaptic > Status > Installed is ± exactly what I was looking for. Its perhaps not as easy to browse as my html files, but everything is there, its quick, and it works out-of-the-box.
    – user2893515
    Jul 17, 2016 at 19:47

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