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check user installed programs

How do check the programs that the actual user of the computer installed. I do not care at all about the default programs that came with your distro of Linux, I only want the user installed programs.

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What exactly constitutes a "user installed program"? Something installed in that users home directory? Compiled from source? Not from the official repositories?

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