On 2/10/23 17:58, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Third question: Where can one find a list of
> all programs installed from Synaptic (or apt get)
> and the dates of last installation for each?
See if this gets you what you want:

dpkg-query --show -f '${Package}\t${db-fsys:Last-Modified}\n' | awk -e 
'{ print strftime("%Y/%m/%d %T",$2 ) "\t" $1}'

I put the date first so that you can easily pipe it though sort and get 
a list of packages from oldest to newest.

Brian Cluff