List all user-installed packages on OpenWrt / LEDE

list-user-installed-packages.sh

#!/bin/sh

FLASH_TIME=$(opkg info busybox | grep '^Installed-Time: ')

for i in $(opkg list-installed | cut -d' ' -f1)
do
    if [ "$(opkg info $i | grep '^Installed-Time: ')" != "$FLASH_TIME" ]
    then
        echo $i
    fi
done

Excellent. This has come in very useful for community builds that will show every package in /usr/lib/opkg/status as "user installed"

Awesome! Thank you!!

found this via @Fiver55 on openwrt forum. if you use opkg status and awk it runs in a flash. here's a mock script:

#!/bin/sh

## thread: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=42739
## source: https://gist.github.com/devkid/8d4c2a5ab62e690772f3d9de5ad2d978

FLASH_TIME=$(opkg status busybox | awk '/Installed-Time/ {print $2}')
LIST_INSTALLED=$(opkg list-installed | awk '{print $1}')

PACKAGES_2_INSTALL="/tmp/pack2install.txt"
SYSTEM_INSTALLED="/tmp/installedwithsystem.txt"

if [ -e "$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL" ]; then
	rm -f "$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL"
	touch "$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL"
else
	touch "$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL"
fi

if [ -e "$SYSTEM_INSTALLED" ]; then
	rm -f "$SYSTEM_INSTALLED"
	touch "$SYSTEM_INSTALLED"
else
	touch "$SYSTEM_INSTALLED"
fi

echo
echo "Getting a list of the current manually installed packages (this may take a minute or two):"
echo
for i in $LIST_INSTALLED; do
	if [ "$(opkg status $i | awk '/Installed-Time:/ {print $2}')" != "$FLASH_TIME" ]; then
		echo $i | tee -a "$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL"
	else
		echo $i >> "$SYSTEM_INSTALLED"
	fi
done

echo
echo "The list of current MANUALLY installed packages ready at: \"$PACKAGES_2_INSTALL\""
echo
echo "Just to make sure, a list of packages installed by the SYSTEM at FLASH TIME is ready at: \"$SYSTEM_INSTALLED\""
echo

exit 0

cheers :)

https://gist.github.com/ejona86/26974041ebbb3bf6602bd1bee0f92860

Faster, more reliable, and fewer false positives (but longer):

#!/bin/sh
FLASH_TIME="$(awk '
$1 == "Installed-Time:" && ($2 < OLDEST || OLDEST=="") {
  OLDEST=$2
}
END {
  print OLDEST
}
' /usr/lib/opkg/status)"

awk -v FT="$FLASH_TIME" '
$1 == "Package:" {
  PKG=$2
  USR=""
}
$1 == "Status:" && $3 ~ "user" {
  USR=1
}
$1 == "Installed-Time:" && USR && $2 != FT {
  print PKG
}
' /usr/lib/opkg/status | sort

Getting FLASH_TIME is shorter with grep ^Installed-Time: /usr/lib/opkg/status | cut -d " " -f 2 | sort -n | head -n 1, but I chose to just use awk.

That's way faster, @ejona86. A fraction of a second versus multiple seconds. Great

Hello

For me, none of these scripts work.

I noticed that a few of my packages have exactly the same installed time, so busybox would be the only package excluded from the output list.

I build my images with image builder in a "slow" VM.
I think installed time is not the flash time, but the install time during the build process of the image.

I found a workaround by reducing the precision of the install time value.
`#!/bin/sh

PRECISION=6

trunk_time () {
PKGTIME=$(opkg info "$1" | grep '^Installed-Time: ' | cut -f2 -d ' ')
PKGTIME=${PKGTIME:0:$2}
return
}

trunk_time busybox $PRECISION && BUILD_TIME=$PKGTIME

for i in $(opkg list-installed | cut -d' ' -f1)
do
trunk_time $i $PRECISION
if [ "$PKGTIME" != "$BUILD_TIME" ]
then
echo $i
fi
done
`
Understanding these scripts look to be correct for many, do I miss something?

Sorry but seems like I donot know how to insert code in my message

Oh .. Many Tnxs .. I took care about whats programs installed, wrote at a list .. but is possible I missed something in the way .. it's is very useful ..

Yet another variant:

DISTRI_TIME=$(grep Installed-Time /usr/lib/opkg/status | sort | head -n1)

while read -r line; do
  case "$line" in
    "Package: "*)
        package="$line"
        _skip=false;;
    "${DISTRI_TIME}")
        _skip=true;;
    "Auto-Installed: yes")
        _skip=true;;
    "") # Empty line delimenates individual package blocks
        [ "$_skip" = true ] || echo "$package" | awk '{print $2}';;
  esac
done < /usr/lib/opkg/status | sort

Cheers!

And yet another variant. This one produces a more accurate/minimal list, as it also skips all dependents of other packages. It's based on bash, as it uses associative arrays.

https://gist.github.com/don-coleman/2218210aec58986acc80467f9a15d42b

Thanks @guymarc! Your script is the only one that worked for me. The other scripts here just list every single package installed. Maybe it is that way because I also used the Image Builder.

as someone suggested on https://www.sindastra.de/p/1213/list-user-installed-packages-in-openwrt

You can update busybox via opkg update, so it’s install time can be wrong as reference.
As a result you will have wrong list.
Only one thing you cannot install via opkg is kernel – because you update it over flashing new firmware.
So the kernel’s install time should be used as flash time.
FLASH_TIME=$(opkg info kernel | grep ‘^Installed-Time: ‘)

Here's my take on the subject using only busybox commands in an ash shell. Combine all of the above with some code golf magic.

#!/bin/sh
P=/usr/lib/opkg/status
T=$(awk -v RS= '/^P.{0,8}ker/' $P|grep '^I'|cut -d' ' -f2)
awk -v RS= -v t="$T" '$0 !~t' $P|grep '^Pa'|cut -d' ' -f2|sort

But wait, can't more can be done? You are looking to list packages required for imagebuilder, and you only need the packages that automatically install all the other packages as dependencies. Fret not, there's a script for that too.

#!/bin/sh
P=/usr/lib/opkg/status
T=$(awk -v RS= '/^P.{0,8}ker/' $P|grep '^I'|cut -d' ' -f2)
I=$(awk -v RS= -v t="$T" '$0 !~t' $P|grep '^Pa'|cut -d' ' -f2|sort)
D=$(awk -v RS= -v t="$T" '$0 !~t' $P|grep '^D'|cut -d' ' -f2-|sed 's#, #\n#g'|sort|uniq)
p=;for i in $I;do if [ $(echo $D|grep -c $i) = 0 ];then p="$p $i";fi;done;echo $p

*drops mic*