I started thinking about doing a fresh linux install and was worried that I might not remember all the packages that I had manually installed. A quick search revealed a one-liner that compares the currently installed packages to the list of packages that were available initially to produce a nice list of user installed packages.
comm -23 \
<(apt-mark showmanual | sort -u) \
<(gzip -dc /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz | \
sed -n 's/^Package: //p' | sort -u)
| source: | http://askubuntu.com/questions/2389/generating-list-of-manually-installed-packages-and-querying-individual-packages |
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