Monday, December 25, 2017

How do I show apt-get package management history via command line?


Is there a way to show the history of packages that were changed by apt-get via command line?



All actions with apt (apt-get) are logged. These files are available in /var/log/apt/. To view the most recent history log, execute:


less /var/log/apt/history.log

These logs gets rotated (every month I guess), old files will be suffixed with a number and compressed. So to view the next history log, use:


zless /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz

To view the logs available:


ls -la /var/log/apt/

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