[solved] How to find out what the last n packages installed?

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Hi,
I wasn to find out what the last 16 packages I installed were, and was wondering if there was a quick way of doing this? I installed grip on a xfce machine, and it's pulled in a lot of gnome dependencies I want to expunge.

Thanks,
Jim

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:54 pm Post subject:

BrummieJim,

Look at the end of /var/log/emerge.log

You will find tail, grep and | useful.
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BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Thanks, I'd tried looking in the world file, that didn't give dates.
Much appreciated,
Jim

krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

genlop will tell you dates.

look here for a kinda on topic subject : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-842667-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 10:04 pm Post subject:

BrummieJim,

The world files only tells you packages you asked to be installed. It does not include their dependancies.
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Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

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