Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
Thanks Elvis. It's helpful.On 6/2/05, Elvis Cehajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list them in> a certain order like from oldest to newest?This topic was dicussed some days ago on the german mailing list. Trythis link if you understand

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Elvis Cehajic
> How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list them in > a certain order like from oldest to newest? This topic was dicussed some days ago on the german mailing list. Try this link if you understand any German: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2005/05/msg03038.h

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/1/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..What makes one package older than another one? Time since installationon your system? Logging this information is a pretty much requestedfeature and several approaches have been posted here. At least I think, I didn't bother to read all of t

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-02 Thread Shidai Liu
On 6/1/05, Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Shidai Liu,..dpkg --get-selectionswill get you a list of packages that are installed, but that's just inalphabetical order. Thanks for this tip. If you didn't clean your package cache the following command will listpackages from newe

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-01 Thread Maurits van Rees
Hello Shidai Liu, Welcome to the Debian club! On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:14:13PM +0100, Shidai Liu wrote: > How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list them in > a certain order like from oldest to newest? This could be very covenient > since I don't have much disk spac

Re: Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-01 Thread Jochen Schulz
Shidai Liu: > > How to list all the packages installed in the system You are talking about the packages you have installed? # dpkg --get-selections > and how to list them in a certain order like from oldest to newest? What makes one package older than another one? Time since installation on yo

Listing packages oldest to newest

2005-06-01 Thread Shidai Liu
Hi there, I'm excited about my newly installed Debian Sarge in a very old laptop thinkpad 390. The installation is very flexible. Now I have all the softwares I need within 600M harddisk. Also I met some problems. Here is one. How to list all the packages installed in the system and how to list t