After the recent conversation regarding this, and since I'm a Debian- newbie, and want to keep a history of ~when I installed packages, I created this little bash script that I run each time I install or remove packages: x=`date +%y%m%d.%H%M` COLUMNS=120 dpkg -l > ~/dpkg.installed.$x ln -sf ~/dpkg.installed.$x ~/dpkg.installed
Then, I grep ~/dpkg.installed to see what is installed at any one time. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org | | | ! "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's not | ! hereditary..." | ! Dr. Dean Edell ! +------------------------------------------------------------+