How to tell what has changed after an update?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Daniel Convissor <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com> wrote:

From: Daniel Convissor <danielc at analysisandsolutions.com>
Subject: Re: How to tell what has changed after an update?
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 11:11 PM

Hi:

On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:31:13PM -0500, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> Is there some
> file I can look at or some apt/dpkg command I can run to determine
> what packages were installed/updated when?

For this part of your query, you can check out the files in /var/log/apt 
(recited from memory, pardon any errors).

--Dan
Just to add a bit on the good advice.  If you use aptitude to upgrade there is
a file 'aptitude' in /var/log that shows date, time, what was upgraded or held back.
Var/log/apt.term.log shows the output of the cli for any apt command, I suppose, along with the date and time.
Those two items are what you are looking for I believe.  Feel free to explore /var/log as there seems to be a history of everything you do on the OS.
Leonard Chatagnier

lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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