list obsolete and/or locally installed packages in debian/ubuntu

3 May

aptitude has a specific list-category to display those when using the curses-GUI, but I do not like it. fortunately, you can use the search-command from the cli-interface with the appropriate search-pattern:

aptitude search “?obsolete”

or as a shorthand:


aptitude search “~o”

See the aptitude Reference Guide for more information.