[OT] listing installed software on Linux

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Thu Sep 20 19:16:09 EDT 2012


Those commands will only display software that was installed using the
package manager. LiveCode is not installed using the package manager so it
will not display.

PS: I think you need to run that as root....

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Richmond <richmondmathewson at ...> writes:
>
> > dpkg --get-selections > installed-software
>
> dpkg: failed to open package info file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for reading:
> No
> such file or directory
>
> My guess is you're running one of those ubuntu-thingies.
>
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>
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