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+title: How to get a list of the latest updates
+description: 
+published: true
+date: 2020-03-09T19:41:11.057Z
+tags: documentation, howto
+---
+
+# How to get a list of the latest updates
+Sometimes updates may cause some sort of malfunctioning and in such a case it may be useful to have at hand a list of the latest updates while looking for the source of the problem.
+
+Let's start with a complete list, from which we can get some useful informations.
+
+The main command is
+
+```
+rpm -qa --last
+```
+
+which prints this kind of list:
+.
+
+    korganizer-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64         Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:48 PM CET
+    incidenceeditor-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64    Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:48 PM CET
+    lib64vdpau-drivers-17.3.6-1-omv2015.0.x86_64  Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:47 PM CET
+    lib64korganizer_core5-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:47 PM CET
+    spectacle-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64          Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:45 PM CET
+    locales-en-2.27-9-omv2015.0.x86_64            Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:45 PM CET
+    kdf-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64                Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:44 PM CET
+    task-plasma-5.10.5-4-omv2015.0.x86_64         Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:43 PM CET
+    okular-tiff-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64        Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:43 PM CET
+
+
+Note: The list may be very long and some rows might not be included.
+To be sure to see them all, to read it more easily or to provide it as attachment, it is useful to convert the console output in a text document.
+
+_Example_:
+```
+rpm -qa --last > rpmlast.txt
+```
+A document `rpmlast.txt` will be created in your /home directory.
+
+You may want to specify a different filename every time you run the above command in order to obtain a new file and not to overwrite the previous one.
+
+_Example_:
+```
+rpm -qa --last > rpmlast_20180315.txt
+```
+
+The document can also be saved in ".csv" format (Comma Separated Value), to be easily imported into a spreadsheet
+_for example Calc_:
+
+```
+rpm -qa --last> rpmlast_20180315.csv
+```
+
+The list may contain many rows, but you can narrow down the list by indicating the date.
+
+_Example_:
+```
+rpm -qa --last | grep Mar
+``` 
+provides updates made in March. To know how to shorten the month just look in the document created with the main command shown above.
+
+You can also restrict your search to a specific day:
+
+_Example_:
+```
+rpm -qa --last | grep Thu\ 15\ Mar
+```
+
+.