Find Lists of packages preinstalled in AntiX editions

[Anonymous]

By chance, is there a place to see a “list” of included packages in current AntiX release ISOs?
Just curiosity; it’d serve as perhaps a more “direct” reference…

Thanks again.

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The list of installed packages is in the file: /usr/share/antiX/installed-packages.txt

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[Anonymous]

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attached:
antiX 21 x64 FULL sysv edition ~~ list of 1570 preinstalled packages

source:
mount the iso, then use the unsquashfs -e command to extract the file
/usr/share/antiX/installed-packages.txt

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attached:
antiX 21 x64 BASE sysv edition ~~ list of 1201 preinstalled packages

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attached:
antiX 21 x64 CORE sysv edition ~~ list of 504 preinstalled packages

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attached:
antiX 21 x64 NET sysv edition ~~ list of 246 preinstalled packages

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attached:
antiX 21 x64 sysv
list of 372 packages preinstalled in FULL edition which are NOT included in BASE edition

[Anonymous]

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antiX 21 x64 sysv
2 packages are preinstalled in CORE edition which are NOT included in NET edition

desktop-defaults-net-antix
fuse

[Anonymous]

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I neglected to generate a list of packages preinstalled in BASE edition which are absent in CORE edition.

Someone else can please followup.
Use the cut command to grab the first column of instpkgs-a21x64-base_sysv.txt
and pipe the output to the sort command and save to a new file e.g. BaseSorted.txt

Then use the cut command to grab the first column of instpkgs-a21x64-core_sysv.txt
and pipe the output to the sort command and save to a new file e.g. CoreSorted.txt

Then generate the diff list using the following command:
comm -2 -3 BaseSorted.txt CoreSorted.txt > inBASEnotinCORE.txt

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Oh, damn me…
And I made everyone else work in vain…

Saying “apologies” would even be a bit hypocrite from me.
What I meant was, whether there was an “online” public place/page where one could consult them…

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I often use this one from distrowatch,if you scroll up you can make your own entries.
https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=compare-packages&firstlist=antix&secondlist=mx&firstversions=0&secondversions=0&showall=yes#allpackages

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Anonymous wrote:

Oh, damn me…
And I made everyone else work in vain…

Saying “apologies” would even be a bit hypocrite from me.
What I meant was, whether there was an “online” public place/page where one could consult them…

There is now. This thread. Thanks to skidoo.

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Thanks very much everyone for your help.
At least I also learned how to manually get it.
Hope I didn’t bother more…

Just as comment, I kind of expected package “apt-file” to be included by default in AntiX full; because it seems quite used for querying information about non-installed packages.

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Please note: The lists of installed packages are only useful for performing a quick comparison.
They do not convey the “whole story” ~~ during the build-iso process, many NON-packaged, edition-specific, files (icons, scripts, configuration files) are injected.

You cannot confidently “install a Base edition ISO” and then just install some/all of the “the inFullNOTinBase” packages to achieve a satisfactory result.
For this reason, across years I have coached (often in the face of contradictory advise from others):
it’s preferable to start with FULL edition and remove unwanted items, toward a slimmed yet more complete than Base edition result.

Here you can note the (many) additional, or customized, non-packaged copies of files which build-iso injects for the Full edition:
https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/Build-iso/-/tree/master/Themes/full/misc
and here, files and directories which are copied into place by build-iso (in some cases intentionally overwriting as-shipped files placed by installation of various packages) when (and only if) the Full edition ISO is being generated:
https://gitlab.com/antiX-Linux/Build-iso/-/blob/master/Themes/full/theme.sh

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I kind of expected package “apt-file” to be included by default

along with apt-file, I have formed the habit of immediately installing apt-listchanges.
Here’s its manpage: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/apt-listchanges/apt-listchanges.1.en.html

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