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Re: Is there an apt-get install log?



On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 14:59, Jim Woodruff wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 17:54, rich wrote:
>  >
>  > All,
>  >
>  > Is there a log anywhere that has a list of packages installed and
>  > their install dates?
>  > If not, what is a good way to completely back out of a package and
>  > all the installed dependencies?
> 
> One simple way is to issue the following command:
> 
> 	ls /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list > filename

Looks like you've got "ls" aliased to "ls -l".  Your
Scripting Language Of Choice would knock this out quick,
since you really don't care about permissions, file size,
and ownership.

> This will list all installed programs and the install date.

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