apt-history

Command-line tool to pretty-print and filter the APT log

Filter log entries by installations made by user 'ichy'.

apt-history -u ichy -A Install

Filter log entries by removals affecting the package 'firefox:amd64'

apt-history -A Remove -p firefox:amd64

By default, apt-history paginates using less(1) or more(1), but this can be

disabled with the -P flag. In this example, only log entries made by the

current user will be displayed.

Thanks to the -r flag, the output is reversed, meaning that the newest

entries show last.

apt-history -r -u $USER -P

You might prefer your packages to be listed out in a wrapped way, more like

you'd see in the '/var/log/apt/history.log' file, without all of the version

strings.

Using the -c flag, this example will include the actual command executed.

apt-history -D Wrapped -c