On Wed 23 Sep 2026 at 19:53:34 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2026 at 06:39:10PM +0000, [email protected] > wrote: > > Is there a way to uninstall all the packages and *all* of their > > dependencies installed after a certain data? > > I think the easiest thing to do is to look in /var/log/apt/history.log > (and its .xx.gz archives) for the list of installed p[ackages, put them > all in one long "apt purge" command and then afterwards run "apt > autoremove" to get rid of any unused dependencies.
The "Commandline:"s lines should give the deliberately installed packages, but the "Install:" lines should give all the package names, including dependencies. The latter list is more tedious to edit because of the versions and architectures, which need stripping. > I don't believe there is any other place that records date of package > installation. Were you to lose the history logs, I think you should be able to get a similar list from: ls -Ggldt --time=birth /usr/share/doc/* I don't rotate my apt logs, so I've never had any need to use the second method. It might be interesting to compare the lists produced by both methods. Cheers, David.
