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List only truly manually installed APT packages on Debian/Ubuntu (exclude auto-installed dependencies)
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apt-manually-installed.sh
apt-mark showmanual \
| sort -u \
| xargs -r -n1 sh -c \
'LC_ALL=C aptitude -q=2 why "$0" 2>/dev/null | grep -q "Manually installed" && echo "$0"'
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