

For more information Please check Step by Step: How to Add User to Sudoersto provide sudo access to the User.

You can use any user with sudo access to run all these commands. Please note that here I am using root user to run all the below commands. You need to run apt list -manual-installed=true command to check all the manually installed packages. If you are using older Ubuntu/Debian version then you can use apt or apt-get command to check all the manually installed packages in Ubuntu/Debian. We will see about automatically installed packages in upcoming articles.Ģ Ways to List All Manually Installed Packages in Ubuntu/DebianĪlso Read: How to Prevent Updating a Specific Package in Linux(Ubuntu/Debian) Method 1: Using apt or apt-get command While there are multiple ways to find all those packages but here we will look into 2 simple ways that can be easily used to find out all the manually installed packages. Many times you might want to know about all the packages which are automatically installed due to some dependency requirements from another package and also about the packages which you have manually installed. In this article, I will take you through 2 different ways that can be used to list all manually installed packages in Ubuntu/Debian.
