List all installed packages

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I need help regarding list of all installed packages and same can be saved in .csv file.

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A google search of “ansible list packages” yields this https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/ansible/builtin/package_facts_module.html and from my experience, you can use the copy module to save the contents of a variable to a file Write variable to a file in Ansible - Stack Overflow

So since you gave no other information, you’d combine these two commands into a playbook wherein the variable containing your package info is saved to a csv.

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Right, something like this should work:

- name: Get the apt package facts
  ansible.builtin.package_facts:
    manager: apt

- name: List installed packages
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    var: ansible_facts.packages.keys()

- name: Write installed packages to a file
  ansible.builtin.copy:
    content: "{{ ansible_facts.packages.keys() }}"
    dest: /tmp/installed_apt_packages.csv