Find out which PHP packages are installed on ubuntu / debian

As we have moved or upgraded sites from one server to another,  sometimes we have needed to know which PHP5 dependencies were installed on one server servera,  so that we could make sure those same dependencies were met on another server serverb

To do this we can run a simply command line tool on server a

servera# echo `dpkg -l|awk '$1 ~ /ii/ && $2 ~ /php5/{print $2}'`
libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-pgsql 

and then we copy the contents of the output and past it after the apt-get install command on serverb

serverb# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-common php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-pgsql 

Dont forget to reload apache as some packages do not reload it automatically

serverb# /etc/init.d/apache2 reload