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Where are the files of my installed programs located? I would like to collect all of them in one "install" folder so that I can reinstall them any time I want, just as I can do in Windows.

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Rasul1996
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Most Linux systems use packages which are managed by the system using a package manager tool like apt

You can get a list of all packages installed by running this command:

apt list --installed

This may list out a lot of packages, including libraries and stuff. You can try this command instead to list out packages you probably installed yourself:

apt-mark showmanual

Then anytime you want to re-install those packages you can take the list of packages and run a command like this:

 sudo apt install $(cat my_packages.txt)
Kristopher Ives
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