https://askubuntu.com/a/436700/248158 is a great answer but if you no longer have the file iso/casper/filesystem.manifest-remove to look at the list or just want another way you may be able to get the information (in more ugly form) from /var/log/apt.

• Assuming you have the oldest compressed history.log file available (which you normally should have if you did a clean install of 13.10 (and don't use things like Bleachbit)), you should see something close to this:

  
  
  

  $ ls -l /var/log/apt
  
  total 120
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5024 Mar 19 07:40 history.log
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1252 Feb 27 07:29 history.log.1.gz
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2156 Jan 31 06:03 history.log.2.gz
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1288 Dec 31 11:14 history.log.3.gz
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3232 Nov 27 07:22 history.log.4.gz
  
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18813 Oct 31 07:11 history.log.5.gz
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 28064 Mar 19 07:40 term.log
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3331 Feb 27 07:29 term.log.1.gz
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 4862 Jan 31 06:03 term.log.2.gz
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 3685 Dec 31 11:14 term.log.3.gz
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 9058 Nov 27 07:22 term.log.4.gz
  
  -rw-r----- 1 root adm 12452 Oct 31 07:11 term.log.5.gz
  
  $




• In here, history.log.5.gz is of interest. So, to get the uncompressed version, run:

  
  
  

  zcat /var/log/apt/history.log.5.gz > ~/Desktop/output.txt




• Look at that file with the text editor you like. Looking from the top, you'll see a lot of "installs" (very long lines) but if you go down carefully a few lines, you'll come to a line beginning with Purge:. That is also a very long line and will list the packages, including gparted, removed as part of the setting up of your OS.




• If you like the terminal, you can extract only that line with:

  
  
  

  grep -m 1 "Purge:" ~/Desktop/output.txt