Synaptic history

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 11/07/2010 10:36 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 16:12:42 +0000
> Tony Pursell wrote:
> 
>> var/log/apt - history.log and term.log
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> A pity there isn't a gui to read it - a comma separated long line of
> packages isn't very user-friendly. But something like
> cat history.log |sed s/\)\,/\)\\n/g | less
> helps.
> 
> - Richard.


You should be using dpkg logs not apt logs and you can view everything
that happens in "Ubuntu Software Centre" there is a history view, and it
does have "Updates", "Installations" and "Removals."