[ale] list pkgs installed since os install?

[Matt Rideout]

Michael B. Trausch wrote, On 08/05/2009 08:56 PM:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Tim Watts wrote:
>   
>> Anyone know of a way to list all packages installed on a system (Kubuntu 8.10)
>> since the OS was installed? It doesn't seem possible to do this based on the
>> info apt keeps. Have I missed something?
>>     
>
> You can likely use the timestamps in the dpkg/apt metadata; the stat 
> filesystem command will give you the date/time that the file was changed, 
> which would appear to be the timestamp that you want.
>
>  	--- Mike
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You can also grep through /var/log/dpkg.log*.