How to get a list of explicitly installed packages ?

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LegionOfHell · Post by **LegionOfHell** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:01 pm

How do I get a list of packages installed explicitly using: "emerge <pkg-name>" ?

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:24 pm

/var/lib/portage/world

LegionOfHell · Post by **LegionOfHell** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:48 am

-bash: cd: world: Not a directory ..

There is no world directory under /var/lib/portage/

Jaglover · Post by **Jaglover** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:16 am

Try

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$ file /var/lib/portage/world

Post by **John R. Graham** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 1:24 am

What Anon-E-moose meant was

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cat /var/lib/portage/world

What Jaglover showed is a command that will reveal whether the file exists (it should) and what its contents is like (should be "ASCII text").

- John

Anon-E-moose · Post by **Anon-E-moose** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 9:22 am

Sorry, I assumed he would either less or cat it. I thought everyone knew that world was a file.

Post by **John R. Graham** » Fri Sep 27, 2019 12:04 pm

Yes,

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man portage

should definitely be on one's reading list at some point.

- John