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List all installed packages in ubuntu
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#! /bin/sh
TEMPFILE=`tempfile`
cat /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | gzip -d |grep '^Package:' | awk '{ print $2}' > $TEMPFILE
aptitude search -F %p '~i!~M' | awk '{ print $1}' | grep -v -F -f $TEMPFILE
rm $TEMPFILE
# Run the following to get a list of all the packages
# chmod +x installedpackages.sh
# ./installedpackages.sh > packages
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To remove all the packages:

cat packages | xargs sudo apt-get purge -y

Add -s to simulate the run

sudo apt-get autoremove

to get rid of any dependencies that are no longer needed.

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