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Generate history of packages installed and removed in Ubuntu

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Problem

Somewhere on the web, there was a great command line string that parsed your dpkg logs and presented a clean output to show you when you installed and removed various packages. I'm talking more than rather, this command had a for loop to grab all the dpkg logs, and then used awk to find the importa…

Error Output

dpkg --get-selections  >  installed_pkgs

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Fix for: Generate history of packages installed and removed in Ubuntu

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Here is the script, via Linux Commando.

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