dpkg package install

kushalkoolwal · 06-11-2009, 07:34 PM

Alright somebody gotta know this.

Say if I want to list all the packages that were installed in last X ( X can be 5, 10, 13 or 15) days, how can I do that?

Also how about if I want to know the last 10 packages that I have installed on my system?

craigevil · 06-11-2009, 09:19 PM

Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log a bit of a pain to look through but the info is there.

kushalkoolwal · 06-12-2009, 01:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by craigevil

Take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log a bit of a pain to look through but the info is there.

Hmm that's what my guess was and hence the question. Would be nice if there was a command line option in dpkg or apt-get command to get that info.

knudfl · 06-12-2009, 03:31 AM

# cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep "\ installed\ "

The file with the latest packages, installed is /var/log/dpkg.log
The next file in the 'history' is 'dpkg.log1'

And further back the files are e.g. 'dpkg.log.2.gz' and readable
with : # zcat /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz | grep "\ installed\ "

.....

farslayer · 06-12-2009, 10:14 AM

Logwatch supports parsing dpkg.log and you can select ranges of dates.. the documentation is a bit thin though..

makuyl · 06-12-2009, 03:28 PM

ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | less