I access an ubuntu 10.04LTS server that is administered by someone else, I have a feeling that it hasn't been getting updates/upgrades recently.
Is there a way to check on the command line when updates were last taken, without sudo privileges?
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Duplicate of this? http://askubuntu.com/questions/14328/where-can-i-look-up-my-update-history – fossfreedom Mar 03 '14 at 20:24
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1@fossfreedom ...not exactly, he is asking unprivileged and CLI solutions. – Rmano Mar 03 '14 at 20:26
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1Several answers already there that doesnt require privilege and are also CLI based. – fossfreedom Mar 03 '14 at 20:28
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@fossfreedom Yep, you're right. Missed some of them. – Rmano Mar 03 '14 at 20:33
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You can use stat -c %y /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp to find last update date.
It will give the date of last apt-get update.
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You can check the version of some critical package:
% dpkg -l linux-generic
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii linux-generic 3.11.0.17.18 i386 Complete Generic Linux kernel and
and compare with up-to-date system (the example is from 13.10).
The file /var/log/apt/history.log is normally readable by all, so it can help (but its content is log-rotated, so if the last update is old, it may well be empty; you can search the various /var/log/apt/history.log.*.gz for hints).
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