querying install times on packages
Recently I ran into a problem on my machine at home. I had made an
update of several packages and something went wrong. What I need is a
way to query all installed packages by their install date. I couldn't
find any existing tools like dselect, synaptic, or aptitude that would
let me do this. The only thing I can think of is writing a perl script
using the output of `dpkg -s` on every installed package. This would
take a long time for sure. I didn't see any packages or docs on
functions used inside dpkg. Is there another way to do this b/c I don't
want to re-invent the wheel.
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