[Feature Request] List of all installed dpkg/flatpak packages from the command line interface

[mortim]

Hi, I think it's interesting to detect all dpkg/flatpak apps (available in the software manager) but installed from the terminal.

[mtwebster]

The 'Show installed applications' option in the menu lists anything the user has installed explicitly. It doesn't include dependencies pulled in as a result.

Any flatpak installed in the terminal will be detected by Mintinstall. If it's from a foreign repo (not flathub or something previously set up), it may take a cache refresh for it to show all info, like descriptions, but it should show up regardless.

There's also a commandline option (that I just fixed that will list all packages and their states -

LANGUAGE=C /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py list
# and also
LANGUAGE=C /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py list-flatpak

This will be working again in the next release. It lists all packages with basic info, including the categories they are in (including the 'installed' category).

[mortim]

The 'Show installed applications' option in the menu lists anything the user has installed explicitly. It doesn't include dependencies pulled in as a result.

Any flatpak installed in the terminal will be detected by Mintinstall. If it's from a foreign repo (not flathub or something previously set up), it may take a cache refresh for it to show all info, like descriptions, but it should show up regardless.

There's also a commandline option (that I just fixed that will list all packages and their states -

LANGUAGE=C /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py list
# and also
LANGUAGE=C /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintinstall/mintinstall.py list-flatpak

This will be working again in the next release. It lists all packages with basic info, including the categories they are in (including the 'installed' category).

Sometimes a package (explicitly installed) depends on a orphan package (this package is not necessary a library but an end-user application). Will Mintinstall consider these kind of packages ?