XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 07:15:47 -0500, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
      
   > He can look at the latest log file in /var/log/apt to find out.   
      
   Or /var/log/dpkg.log.1   
      
   On my machine dpkg.log and history.log are empty but dpkg.log.1 is still   
   plain text and not a .gz.  I don't know the timing on the log rotations.   
      
   On Fedora  'dnf history list'  and 'dnf history info TRANSACTION_ID' are   
   handier   
      
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