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In my current use case I'm setting up a new Ubuntu server for hosting LLMs. I didn't take notes when setting it up last time around but want to document exactly what was required to pass on to coworkers trying something similar. I don't know what packages I installed to get the minimalist setup working vs what is installed by default. I'm tempted to nuke and redo with notes but I'm sure there is a better method of tracking down what I deployed to get to the current state.

...or not, and this is why HomeBrew exists and I need to learn it or ansible/etc.

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You can try this command. But I doubt it will work as intended if you have ever upgraded Ubuntu versions.

  comm -23 <(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) <(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
https://askubuntu.com/a/492343/1056703

NixOS seems ideal for this.



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