Question about apt-get

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:00:53 +0300 Dionysis Petromanolakis wrote:

> do you know if apt-get has a log file that writes what it installs and
> unistalls?

No, but dpkg does:
/var/log/dpkg.log

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On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 12:00:53PM +0300, Dionysis Petromanolakis wrote:
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>Hi all,
>
>do you know if apt-get has a log file that writes what it installs and
>unistalls?
Helllo, I don't know if apt-get does the work but:
dpkg -l | less
gives:
ii for install
rc for remove
etc
man dpkg gives more informations

hth.
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Gérard

On Thursday 14 June 2007 05:00, Dionysis Petromanolakis wrote:
> do you know if apt-get has a log file that writes what it installs and
> unistalls

No, but aptitude does. You should trying using it instead of apt-get. aptitude
is now the official install method.

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