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davicb

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Registered: 2019-11-01

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[SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

Hi
I was wondering if there was a way to list packages by installation date.

I am trying to find out what did I installed when I got the package 'hwinfo', it may be a dependency of another package or I could have installed it and do nor remember it.

This is a nice command

~]$ expac --timefmt='%Y-%m-%d %T' '%l\t%n'|sort -n | grep hwinfo
2019-12-28 15:22:45     hwinfo
~]$

It could show the first installation date unless there was an update, in this case it shows the last time updated.

My idea was to cross information with the bash history.

I found that I do not have any orphan packages too, so hwinfo is not an orphan.
I know hwinfo is a 'Hardware detection tool from openSUSE'.

I know it is not something I need to worry about. I am trying to track the precise moment I allowed this package to get in. It would be nice the ability to track with this precision.

Thanks

Last edited by davicb (2019-12-29 01:41:29)

CarbonChauvinist

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Re: [SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

Just grep or otherwise parse /var/log/pacman.log to find what you need is my recommendation.

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judd1

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Re: [SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

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Re: [SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

paclog --package=<package name> | head -1

Should give you what you want.

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loqs

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Re: [SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

Have you checked the installation reason in the output of `pacman -Qi hwinfo` to see if it was explicitly installed or not?

davicb

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Re: [SOLVED] List packages by "FIRST" installation date

Thanks everyone

Nice commands.
The pacman -Qi hwinfo helped me the most. Wont forget that one.
I found 'hwinfo' came as dependenci of 'hw-probe' which i got from AUR.

Thanks