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Is there a way to show the history of installed packages that were installed by apt-get via commandline?

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All actions with apt (apt-get) are logged. These files are available in /var/log/apt/. To view the most recent history log, execute:

less /var/log/apt/history.log

These logs gets rotated (every month I guess), old files will be suffixed with a number and compressed. So to view the next history log, use:

zless /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz

To view the logs available:

ls -la /var/log/apt/
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This is excellent. The only thing missing is who ran the commands. – Limited Atonement Apr 3 '12 at 17:33
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@LimitedAtonement Have a look at /var/log/auth.log, it may contain the user running the installation. (this won't help if the installation was invoked through a shell/program running as root) – Lekensteyn Apr 3 '12 at 17:41

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