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Command to know when Linux was installed


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Hi,

 

I am on Fedora Core 5 32+ bit. I wonder if there is any command that can tell you when Linux was installed & updated on the computer with time and date. Or any other software/application like MySQL or PHP was installed and updated? Is there any kind of log available that I can access? Thanks........

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I've done some googling for you and checked all my linux distros. The only one that has anything like that is Gentoo which has an emerge log. This tells me when I installed my system and I can search for every program that I've installed or upgraded. I can't find anything else like that with the other systems. Sorry, maybe a Fedora user can help.

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Whatever package manager the distro uses most probably has both of:

 

a- A log of all upgrades, often in /var/log, take a look here first, look for the package manager name.

b- Stores in the package database, when the package was installed/upgraded.

 

I know that pacman on Arch does both of these. (pacman -Qi packagename for install date/reason, or /var/log/pacman.log for a log). Other distros would undoubtedly have the same.

 

James

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