Hi!

Besides to check the timestamp on a file, is there a way to see when a package was installed (ubuntu system), and if it updated a existing package, what files did it overwrite?

Ps. Not much info at all in my dpkg.log (empty) and my dpkg.log.1 (older than the last update it appears). Ds.

Ty in advance!

/Ravee

The command :
ls -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep list > last-packages.txt

.. will save a text list with package names and the install time.
With the latest installed packages at the top of the list.


The command : dpkg -L <package-name>
.. shows all the installed files.
..

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Fantastic! Cheers m8!

br,

Ravee

knudfl, when I use the above command in Ubuntu 10.04, I get:

~$ list -tl /var/lib/dpkg/info | grep list > last-packages.txt
No command 'list' found, did you mean:
Command 'dist' from package 'nmh' (universe)
Command 'slist' from package 'ncpfs' (universe)
Command 'klist' from package 'heimdal-clients' (universe)
Command 'klist' from package 'krb5-user' (main)
Command 'listg' from package 'nauty' (multiverse)
Command 'hist' from package 'loki' (universe)
Command 'flist' from package 'nmh' (universe)
Command 'last' from package 'sysvinit-utils' (main)
Command 'gist' from package 'yorick' (universe)
Command 'bist' from package 'bist' (universe)
list: command not found

Am I doing something incorrectly?

Additionally the package manager (Synaptic Package Manager) has a history view of packages, it's just not very obvious.
Go to File->History. Then you can use the find feature in the popup window to search through histories of specific installed packages, or browse the whole history.

@ jim_d , post # 4 : Sorry , typo.

It is of course : ls -tl

..

No prob--thx for clarifying, knudfl--