Re: How to find WHEN a package was installed

[rvf@linux.wku.edu (Rob VanFleet)]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:13:00PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:50:26PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote:
> > I need to find out when my perl version was upgraded, and I can use
> > dpkg to verify the fact that it's installed, but I can't seem to find
> > a way to display *when* it was installed.
> > 
> > Any hints? Or am I missing something obvious in a manpage or
> > something?
> 
> I'm sorry, but there's no facility in dpkg to log installations at the
> moment: it's a long-standing enhancement request. You either have to do
> it yourself, or use aptitude which I believe has installation logging
> support.

Does woody's aptitude have support for this, or just later versions?  I
looked through the man page and other docs and couldn't find anything
about it.

Thanks,
Rob