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Does the Software Center log installations?

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Does the Ubuntu Software Center keep a log of everything it has installed? So I could just parse this log to convert it into a script full of 'sudo apt-get instals' or something. And then the next time I install Ubuntu I could just this script to re-install everything.

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answered 2 Years ago calronze · Accepted Answer

Yes, It maintains a log in /var/log/apt/history.log. Older histories gets compressed as .gz files. It contains installation, upgrade and removal logs.

For keeping existing software backups you can use
dpkg-repack to make .deb files out of installed files. Here.