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

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: ‘)