* rpm -qa --last will return all installed rpm packages with their installed time. The last installed packages will be at the top of the list. * rpm -qa --last less is will return all installed packages with their install date. Less allows you to scroll through the results. * rpm -qa --last tail -n [lines] will return the last 5 packages. Replace [line] with any number you want, in my case 5 for file lines. [root@testbox root]# rpm -qa --last tail -n 5termcap-11.0.1-17.1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:53 PM MYTsetup-2.5.27-1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYTfilesystem-2.2.1-3 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYTbasesystem-8.0-2 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:52 PM MYTredhat-logos-1.1.14.3-1 Tue 09 May 2006 03:02:51 PM MYT * rpm -qa --last grep [package name] will return the install date for a specific RPM package. In my case the apache web server
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