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  • So in case of manually installed things, say python modules installed via pip etc. is there a generic linux way of figuring out all of these as well, I mean without actually using pip or python utilities itself. I want it to be generic enough that I can simply use it to figure out all possible modules/plugins etc. of any software, eg. vim, python etc.? Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 7:59
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    There's no generic way as far as I know. On Debian derivatives, tools such as cruft (in the cruft package) can help you list files on your system which don't come from packages, but figuring out where they come from and what they correspond to is a manual process. Commented Feb 9, 2017 at 8:55