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

[Randy Belk <randy.belk@gmail.com>]

Felix C. Stegerman wrote:

> On 2006-01-22 19:08:24, Sonixxfx wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can someone tell me how I can track what packages apt-get installs and
> > removes? I occasianally run apt-get dist-upgrade from cron and I would like
> > to know what has been installed and removed by apt-get afterwards.
> >    
>
> I don't know about apt-get, but aptitude has a log file in
> /var/log/aptitude.
>
>
> Felix
>
>  
Install apt-history, it's the best thng since sliced bread...

do the following.
1. add the following to your sources.list
   deb-src http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.debian.org/debian/ 
unstable main
2. do an apt-get update
3. as root
   mkdir /root/debs
   cd debs
   apt-get build-dep apt-history && apt-get -b source apt-history
4. All that is left then is to do:
   dpkg -i apt-history_0.1-1_all.deb

I don't backport to much but I install this on all my debian servers and 
workstations.