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Re: How To determine the date the system & packages were installed.



Mike Iowa:
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> 2. I would also like to be able to look at (any) Debian or Debian-based
> system and tell when the operating system was originally installed.

A good hint might be the creation date of your root filesystem:

$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1  | grep created
Filesystem created:       Mon Jul  6 09:01:20 2009

(Hm, did I really install this system on a Monday at 9 o'clock in the
morning? Must have been on vacation.)

J.
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