G'day
@ReginaBob , g'day all.
For programs I manually installed from Terminal, I usually use
Code:
sudo apt-get install package-name
#or (the -y simply means I trust the package and say yes to changes)
sudo apt-get y install package-name
So in my Debian (same applies to Ubuntu and Linux Mint), these two iterations of commands pulling output from a history log file reveal as follows
Code:
chris@debian9dot8-MATE-SSD:~$ cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep -i "apt-get install"
Commandline: apt-get install gdebi
Commandline: apt-get install software-properties-common
Commandline: apt-get install multisystem
chris@debian9dot8-MATE-SSD:~$ cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep -i "apt-get -y install"
Commandline: apt-get -y install aisleriot
Commandline: apt-get -y install thunderbird
Commandline: apt-get -y install xinput
Commandline: apt-get -y install gparted
Commandline: apt-get -y install mate-tweak
Commandline: apt-get -y install kazam gtkhash
Commandline: apt-get -y install ssh
Commandline: apt-get -y install ufw
Commandline: apt-get -y install inxi
Commandline: apt-get -y install smartmontools
chris@debian9dot8-MATE-SSD:~$
You could string those together in one command, I am lazy but
@JasKinasis could tell us (and likely a better way
) - so 13 commands, with 14 packages (kazam and gtkhash together) which I have put on the Debian since install.
My user name is chris and I can also do
Code:
chris@debian9dot8-MATE-SSD:~$ cat /var/log/apt/history.log | grep -i "Requested-By: chris (1000)"
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
Requested-By: chris (1000)
chris@debian9dot8-MATE-SSD:~$
and this also show me 13 uses of the commands (but does not show the 14th included in the pair).
Once you have the size and scope of the job, you could then use a string to search the log file manually if you wished.
For packages installed through your Synaptic Package Manager, you can open it and choose from the Menu:
File - History , and then expand on the dates, here we see I put on firefox-esr
HTH
Chris Turner
wizardfromoz