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secondplanet

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Registered: 2012-09-23

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] getting pacman to list the most recently installed packages?

I did an upgrade and sound stopped working, so the most logical next step seems to be figuring out what got changed

Last edited by secondplanet (2017-11-27 07:54:57)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] getting pacman to list the most recently installed packages?

take a look at /var/log/pacman.log

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,203

Re: [SOLVED] getting pacman to list the most recently installed packages?

Read the pacman logfile /var/log/pacman.log. The AUR contains some tools to manipulate the logdata, too.

$ cower -s pacman log
aur/downgrader 1.7.0-3 (142)
    Powerful packages downgrader for Archlinux. Works with libalpm, ARM and pacman logs
aur/dpacman 2011.04-0 <!> (7)
    A Simple Frontend (GUI interface), Using Dialog, For Pacman, the Archlinux Package Manager
aur/dpacman-eng 2011.04-0 (0)
    "A Simple Frontend (GUI interface), Using Dialog, For Pacman,
aur/pacman-log-stats-hg 4-1 (0)
    An app to analyze pacman logs and show historical information about the system
aur/pacmanlog2gource 2.0.3-1 (8)
    A bash script to convert a copy of /var/log/pacman.log into a log file allowing later visualisation using gource.
aur/pacmanlog2gource-git 2.0.3-0 (1)
    A bash script to convert a copy of /var/log/pacman.log into a log file allowing later visualisation using gource - git version
aur/pacmanlogviewer 1.2.1-1 (24)
    Inspect pacman log file.
aur/spun-git 20120827-1 (5)
    A simple pacman update notifier from the Chakra project. Spun uses notify-send, has minimal dependencies and offers kdialog configuration.
aur/vim-pacmanlog-git 1.2.r0.gd02ae8c-1 (1)
    Vim syntax highlighting for Pacman log files
aur/zenity_pacgui 0.4-1 (43)
    pacman and system configuration GUI using zenity dialogs

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] getting pacman to list the most recently installed packages?

This seems a task for 'whatdidido':
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 87#p626487

$ whatdidido
[2014-01-27 01:27] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-01-27 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded bc (1.06-9 -> 1.06.95-1)
[2014-01-27 01:29] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.12.8-1 -> 3.13-1)

secondplanet

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Registered: 2012-09-23

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] getting pacman to list the most recently installed packages?

This seems a task for 'whatdidido':
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 87#p626487

$ whatdidido
[2014-01-27 01:27] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-01-27 01:28] [PACMAN] upgraded bc (1.06-9 -> 1.06.95-1)
[2014-01-27 01:29] [PACMAN] upgraded linux (3.12.8-1 -> 3.13-1)

this is exactly the sort of thing I was looking for, thanks