====== Devuan Management ======

Some are applicable to any APT-based distro.

To remove translations, <code>$ cd /etc ; echo "Acquire::Languages { \"none\"; };" > apt/apt.conf.d/99translation ; cd - >/dev/null</code>

To automatically update system essentials, <code>$ apt install unattended-upgrades ; dpkg-reconfigure --priority=low unattended-upgrades</code>

===== List Installed Packages =====

  * Using ''apt'' tool <code>$ apt list --installed 2>/dev/null | grep installed</code> 
    * Note that apt will issue a warning when piping its output in shell. Hence, the need to redirect ''stderr'' to ''/dev/null''. 
    * We can further grep away the packages that were automatically installed.
  * Using the basic ''dpkg'' tool <code>$ dpkg --get-selections | sed -n 's/^\([^\t]*\)\t.*$/\1/ p'</code> 
    * This version, however, only provides package name. 
    * To extract similar output from ''apt'' (assuming output was redirected into a file called ''temp.txt''), run <code>$ cat temp.txt | sed -n 's|^\(.*\)/.*$|\1| p'</code>