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I am a noob in linux and right now I am using a raspberry pi with raspbian to learn about it. I am trying the commands to install and uninstall packages (apt) but i have the following doubt.

Is there a way to differentiate between packages that I have installed and packages that were automatically installed because they are dependencies?

Thanks

potato
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  • I am sorry. I didn't realize there were those sites. I'll post there from now on. Thanks for the info. – potato Aug 29 '18 at 17:01
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    No need to apologize. It happens all the time. [Super User](http://superuser.com/) or [Unix & Linux Stack Exchange](http://unix.stackexchange.com/) are very good sites for these types of questions. – jww Aug 29 '18 at 19:04

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Is there a way to differentiate between packages that I have installed and packages that were automatically installed because they are dependencies?

Probably not, and that should not matter. Suppose you have some package foo that has been installed as a dependency for bar. A few days latter, you might want to install foo (and since it is already installed, nothing will happen).

Basile Starynkevitch
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  • I can see your point. Didn't think about that. Now I can see how pointless the question was. Thank you so much. – potato Aug 29 '18 at 17:03