Joe: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 12:35:00 +0000 > GiaThnYgeia <giathnyg...@openmailbox.org> wrote: > >> One thing I have not been able to find in synaptic or elsewhere is a >> way to keep track of what has been installed and when. If you know >> where such a log habitates or can be created let me/us know. > > Try File -> History.
Most valuable piece of advice in ages. A gift from the snail heavens, sometimes you can only find something if you already know the lingo of what it is called. A log of the history is kept there and synaptic reads it and reports it as history. At /var/log/apt/history there is a log of the month and individual archives of the logs of previous months. Here is the juicy part of what I was looking for: (Debian Bible/Manual) 2.2.9. Package activity logs You can check package activity history in the log files. Table 2.12. The log files for package activities file content /var/log/dpkg.log Log of dpkg level activity for all package activities /var/log/apt/term.log Log of generic APT activity /var/log/aptitude Log of aptitude command activity -- "The most violent element in society is ignorance" rEG