Tag Archives: rpm

List packages by install date

Posted on 09 Jun 19 by

A handy ‘one liner’ that lists all the packages installed on a RedHat system by the install date. $ rpm -qa --qf $'%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -n -r -k1 | cut -f2,3 Sun 09 Jun 2019 17:26:04 BST systemd-sysv Sun 09 Jun 2019 17:26:04 BST systemd-libs Sun 09 Jun 2019 17:26:04 BST rsync   :   :   : Thu 02 Nov 2017 12:49:32 GMT bzip2-libs Thu 02 Nov 2017 12:49:13 GMT fontpackages-filesys Thu 02 Nov 2017 12:49:13 GMT basesystem $  This command uses format specifier … Continue reading →

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Using RPM to find package dependencies

Posted on 19 Sep 18 by

I recently discovered that is it actually rather difficult to determine which packages depend on a particular package using the RedHat Package Manager, and I ended up writing a short script to list all the dependencies for a particular package.

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