<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Patrick Doyle <<a href="mailto:wpdster@gmail.com">wpdster@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How can I tell what has changed after an update? I presume (never having looked at them very carefully) that the changelogs in /usr/share/doc probably contain top level summaries. Is there some file I can look at or some apt/dpkg command I can run to determine what packages were installed/updated when? Presumably, if I sort that by date, I can see what has changed after a recent update. Suppose I wanted more details about a particular package, for example, x11-common, (I don't know if that has changed recently or not, but I've picked it because I happen to be trying to track down a particular change in behavior of X11 right now). That package is listed as version 1:7.4+3ubuntu7. I presume I could grab the cvs/svn/git/mercurial source tree for version 7.4 of xorg, but how could I tell what specific changes were enacted in going from 3ubuntu6 to 3ubuntu7? How would I even know that version 1:7.4+3ubuntu6 was the version I had installed prior to version 1:7.4+3ubuntu7? Thanks for helping me figure this out. As I said, I would rather learn the proper tools to figure this out on my own, rather than just finding out what the recent change to x11-common was (if there even was a recent change). --wpd </blockquote><div> you should be able to go to<a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com"> packages.ubuntu.com</a> and find the package you are looking for by release by version and there should be a link that says changelog iirc Hope this helps akgraner </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Just me Amber. There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. Linus Torvalds