Hi

When i use redhat-based systems i use rpm --last | head -10 to show the last 10 installed packages to the system.. but when im using debian i cant find any such command like "--last" to use.. i can take a look at /var/log/dpkg.log but then i have to scroll up and down and it also shows all dependencies to the packages making it a little hard to see which packages that were actually installed.

Does someone know, by using the command-line, how to show the last X packages installed to the system like i can easily do with "rpm --last" in redhat-based systems?

Thanks for any help.


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chris

Debian based ....

1) "dpkg info"
ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | less
ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep list > installed-packages.txt
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2) dpkg log
# 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.log2.gz' and readable
with : zcat /var/log/dpkg.log.2.gz | grep "\ installed\ "
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Thanks for your answer but if you read what i wrote i specifically said that i didnt want to grep and look in logs like that.. i just wanted a command like "rpm --last" on debian..

So make an alias for it.

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not good enough, when debian is as good as it is i find it very strange that they dont have this functionality

I took a look at the man pages of dpkg and dpkg-query (as I assume you did) and it doesn't look like install date is even stored anywhere.

I'm sorry that you refuse to use the solution provided to you. Also, different distributions do things differently; I'm sorry you feel that things should be identical. Perhaps you'd care to write the code?

yes i did search around and read on the man pthes.. well i think redhats feature is nice to have and it is especially nice when something is broken and you need to see what was last installed. i did at least find /var/log/aptitude to be quite usefull if you are using this package management utility. i guess i have to use the logs until someone decides that they also need this kind of feature.. when it comes to program it myself i find it a little waste of time when i can just check the logs.. i guess im just becoming a little lazy these days for some reason. thanks for your help.

to avoid start another thread, i was wondering if you guys knew how to change aptitude' default install location.. i didnt allocate enought space on / and need to use a symlink to /home/<username>/usr for now.. i read in the aptitude reference manual without finding anything about this..

I really don't see the big difference ..

ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | head -10

.. will provide a similar result to ..
rpm -qa --last | head -10

The rpm listing is also a kind of alias for a complex
mechanism looking into a binary data base in /var/,
and presenting it in a readable listing.

So for a simpler command : make an alias, please.

Or make a symlink from /var/lib/dpkg/info/ to /home/'user'.

.. Then 'ls -tl info | head -10'
.. will do the trick.
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