Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !?

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 2:19 PM, William Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> I think I remember reading a suggestion here about how to get a list of
> the main or core programs on my machine.  It was -- I think -- an rpm or
> yum list command of some kind + grep.  I don't want every plugin or
> update or library just the main program.
>
> I am about to do a virgin install of Fedora 16 (because its about time I
> started fresh rather than with preupgarde again ) and I would like to
> get a simple editable list of all the stuff I now have.
>
> It was one of those things that you say "hey neat" but don't save.  Now
> I can't replicate it.

This will list all RPMs that put something in */bin/ (e.g. all
packages that ship something you can run):
rpm -qal | grep '/bin/' | xargs rpm -q --whatprovides | sort -u

-T.C.