[Quick Tip] How To List All Installed Packages On Linux Distributions

To list all installed package on a Linux system depends on which distribution you are running and the package management mode used.

In this tutorial, we are going to look at commands on some of the notable and popularity used distros.

NOTE: You can pipe the less command OR redirected to a text file using the redirection operator (>). Below are examples

example | less

example > installed_packages.txt

Red Hat/Fedora Core/CentOS Linux:

rpm -qa

FreeBSD / OpenBSD:

pkg_info

Arch Linux:

pacman -Qq

Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint:

dpkg --get-selections

dpkg --list

dpkg -l

Good day.