Moving things, and allowing for retrieving installed packages

package.list

@@ -1,15 +1,35 @@
-nano
+audacity
+clang-18
+clangd-18
+cmake
+containerd.io
+dconf-editor
+dotnet-sdk-8.0
+git
+kdenlive
+kopia-ui
+krita
+lmms
+micro
+npm
+obs-studio
+pcscd
+php
+python3-pip
+qdirstat
+qemu-block-extra
+remmina
+steam-installer
+vagrant
+veracrypt
+virt-manager
+virtualbox
 wine
 wine64
+xppenlinux
 build-essential
-git
-remmina
 mesa-vulkan-drivers
 libglx-mesa0:i386
 mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386
 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
-dconf-editor
-beefbuild
-audacity
-npm
-neofetch
+neofetch

src/Helper.cs

@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@ using System.Diagnostics;
 
 public class Helper
 {
-    public static void RunCommand(String verb, String? arguments = null)
+    public static void RunCommand(string verb, string? arguments = null)
     {
+        /*
+        #if DEBUG
+        Console.WriteLine($"Run Command: {verb} {arguments}");
+        return;
+        #endif*/
+        
         ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo();
         info.FileName = verb;
         if(arguments != null)
@@ -20,4 +26,24 @@ public class Helper
         while (process.HasExited == false)
             continue;
     }
+
+    public static string RunCommandAndGetOutput(string verb, string? arguments = null)
+    {
+        ProcessStartInfo info = new ProcessStartInfo();
+        info.FileName = verb;
+        if(arguments != null)
+            info.Arguments = arguments;
+        info.UseShellExecute = false;
+        info.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
+        info.CreateNoWindow = true;
+        
+        Process process = new Process();
+        process.StartInfo = info;
+        process.Start();
+
+        while (process.HasExited == false)
+            continue;
+
+        return process.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
+    }
 }

src/Program.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using Setup_Workspace;
+using Setup_Workspace.Tasks;
 
 Console.WriteLine("""
                   WSS - Workspace Setup Script version 1.0
@@ -16,7 +17,8 @@ switch (input)
 {
     case "full-install":
         new Runner().Then(
-            new PackageInstaller()
+            new GetInstalledPackages()//,
+            //new PackageInstaller()
         ).Run();
         break;
     

src/Tasks/GetInstalledPackages.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+namespace Setup_Workspace.Tasks;
+
+public class GetInstalledPackages : Doable
+{
+    
+    /*
+        The goal here is to retrieve all of the packages,
+            that have been installed after the initial install
+            
+        - Get the initially installed programs
+            /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz //For linux mint
+                Check wether a line has "Package: " and remove it
+                
+        - Get the currently installed programs
+            apt-mark showmanual
+     */
+    public override bool Do()
+    {
+        Helper.RunCommand("gzip", "/var/log/installer/initial-status.gz -d -k -f");
+        
+        var dPackages = File.ReadAllText("/var/log/installer/initial-status");
+        HashSet<string> dPackageList = new HashSet<string>();
+        foreach (var line in dPackages.Split('\n'))
+            if(line.StartsWith("Package: "))
+                dPackageList.Add(line.Replace("Package: ", ""));
+
+        var installPackages = Helper.RunCommandAndGetOutput("apt-mark", "showmanual");    
+        HashSet<string> installedManualPackages = new HashSet<string>();
+        foreach (var line in installPackages.Split('\n'))
+            if(line != "")
+                installedManualPackages.Add(line);
+        
+        List<string> toInstall = new List<string>();
+        foreach (var item in installedManualPackages)
+            if(!dPackageList.Contains(item))
+                toInstall.Add(item);
+        
+        String toWrite = "";
+        foreach(var item in toInstall)
+            toWrite += item + "\n";
+        File.WriteAllText("package.list.export", toWrite);
+        
+        return true;
+    }
+}

src/Tasks/PackageInstaller.cs

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-namespace Setup_Workspace;
+namespace Setup_Workspace.Tasks;
 
 public class PackageInstaller : Doable
 {