Getting a list of applications and packages on my Fedora machine !? -- Just a comment.

[William Case]

On Sun, 2011-12-18 at 13:01 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote:
> > 
> 
>   I guess groups are a purely an initial install convenience and offer
> no advantages beyond that - in which case if one wants to ensure that an
> install has all packages of a previous install - then simply ignoring
> groups and doing
> 
>   yum list installed | (clever script or human) > fixinstall.sh
> 
>   on older fedora, and copying it to new fedora install
> 
>  will allow one to run fixinstall.sh on the nand install any missed
> packages.
> 
>   This is what i've done for years ... groups could have shortened the
> script I suppose but they aren't important.
> 
>  gene

I will try both your suggestion and Tom Horsley's.  Haven gotten a list
of what is installed currently I want to edit it to not only add new
applications but, since I like to experiment, remove applications that I
have decided I do not want to renew.

Thanks everyone!

-- 
Regards Bill
Fedora 15, Gnome 3.0.2
Evo.3.0.2, Emacs 23.2.1