How to find applications installed today?

Question

Is there any command to list which applications have been installed today via apt-get or dpkg? Is there any other way to find this information?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '13 at 16:57

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Look in /var/log/apt/history.log. That's where the record is kept.

answered Mar 17 '13 at 16:57

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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To see packages installed with dpkg or a package manage different to apt we may scan /var/log/dpkg.log. To reveal the history may use a function posted earlier:

How to see packages installed on a given date using aptitude

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

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answered Mar 17 '13 at 17:08

Takkat

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Nov 05 '13 at 03:41

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You can run

dpkg --get-selections

to get installed packages.

If you're looking for something specific you can use grep to list, for example, PHP packages like this:

dpkg --get-selections | grep php'

To get paths of a specific packages, lets say php5, run this

dpkg -L php5

You can read more in this guide right here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/show-the-list-of-installed-packages-on-ubuntu-or-debian/ or in the manual by running.

man dpkg

edited Nov 05 '13 at 03:41

Seth

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answered Mar 17 '13 at 16:26

Frederik Spang

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Yes, but this shows all applications installed. I need to display recently installed apps e.g. today or since 2 days. – wakeup Mar 17 '13 at 16:28
Please update your question, with that information. – Frederik Spang Mar 18 '13 at 09:40

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 18 '13 at 16:04

You could probably get a little more perverse (and precise) than this, if you need the output for scripting, for example, but if you're just looking for a day's activity:

$ date +"%Y-%m-%d" | xargs -i% sed -n "/%/,/%/p" /var/log/apt/history.log
Start-Date: 2013-06-18  14:24:33
Commandline: apt-get install workrave
Install: workrave:amd64 (1.10-0ubuntu2), workrave-data:amd64 (1.10-0ubuntu2, automatic), libgdome2-0:amd64 (0.8.1+debian-4.1build1, automatic)
End-Date: 2013-06-18  14:24:40
Start-Date: 2013-06-18  16:58:40
Commandline: apt-get dist-upgrade
Install: linux-image-3.8.0-26-generic:amd64 (3.8.0-26.38, automatic), linux-headers-3.8.0-26:amd64 (3.8.0-26.38, automatic), linux-tools-3.8.0-26:amd64 (3.8.0-26.38, automatic), linux-headers-3.8.0-26-generic:amd64 (3.8.0-26.38, automatic), linux-image-extra-3.8.0-26-generic:amd64 (3.8.0-26.38, automatic)
Upgrade: linux-tools:amd64 (3.8.0.25.43, 3.8.0.26.44), linux-generic:amd64 (3.8.0.25.43, 3.8.0.26.44), linux-headers-generic:amd64 (3.8.0.25.43, 3.8.0.26.44), linux-image-generic:amd64 (3.8.0.25.43, 3.8.0.26.44), linux-tools-common:amd64 (3.8.0-25.37, 3.8.0-26.38), linux-libc-dev:amd64 (3.8.0-25.37, 3.8.0-26.38)
End-Date: 2013-06-18  17:00:07

How to find applications installed today?

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