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Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?



Sonixxfx:
> 
> Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and
> removes?

aptitude logs its actions. apt-get doesn't. But may may already be
happy with dpkg's logging mechanism. Caveat: dpkg in unstable doesn't
log yet. I don't know about aptitude in stable.

> I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron [...]

I wouldn't do that.

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