Display The List Of Recently Installed Packages By Date On Ubuntu | Linux Today

Display The List Of Recently Installed Packages By Date On Ubuntu

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 13, 2009

“Say you are troubleshooting a problem and need to back-track on
when a package was installed. Or if you are a Windows user who has
switch to Ubuntu and is not familiar with how to check when a
package was installed.

“Fortunately there are a few ways to find out. In this article,
we’ll look at how to view installed packages by date using
Synaptics Package Manager and from the command prompt using a
Terminal window.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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