Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> writes: > So, something like > > (cd /var/lib/dpkg/info; ls -l *.list \ > | while read a b c d mm dd ty nm; do echo "$mm $dd $ty ${nm%.list}"; done) > > could give a starting point for a list of installation dates. > For the removed packages this, obviously, does not work :-(
That is a nice jump-start... thanks. And just at a causual test of grep 'zlib1g ' dpkg* (last line of output from /var/log/dpkg.log.1 [...] 2011-09-29 13:58:53 status installed zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 And last line of your nifty suggestion: [...] 218 Sep 29 08:58 zlib1g The times disagree but the day and month are the same. And I think the time might reflect a 5 hr shift from greenwitch mean time or something -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcruifxp....@newsguy.com