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title: How to get a list of the latest updates
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description:
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published: true
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date: 2021-09-26T21:33:27.191Z
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tags: documentation, howto, user-guide
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editor: markdown
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dateCreated: 2020-03-09T19:41:11.057Z
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---
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# How to get a list of the latest updates
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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.
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Let's start with a complete list, from which we can get some useful informations.
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The main command is
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```
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rpm -qa --last
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```
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which prints this kind of list:
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.
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korganizer-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:48 PM CET
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incidenceeditor-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:48 PM CET
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lib64vdpau-drivers-17.3.6-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:47 PM CET
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lib64korganizer_core5-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:47 PM CET
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spectacle-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:45 PM CET
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locales-en-2.27-9-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:45 PM CET
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kdf-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:44 PM CET
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task-plasma-5.10.5-4-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:43 PM CET
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okular-tiff-17.12.2-1-omv2015.0.x86_64 Thu 15 Mar 2018 05:27:43 PM CET
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Note: The list may be very long and some rows might not be included.
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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.
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_Example_:
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```
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rpm -qa --last > rpmlast.txt
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```
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A document `rpmlast.txt` will be created in your /home directory.
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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.
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_Example_:
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```
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rpm -qa --last > rpmlast_20180315.txt
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```
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The document can also be saved in ".csv" format (Comma Separated Value), to be easily imported into a spreadsheet
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_for example Calc_:
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```
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rpm -qa --last> rpmlast_20180315.csv
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```
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The list may contain many rows, but you can narrow down the list by indicating the date.
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_Example_:
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```
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rpm -qa --last | grep Mar
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```
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provides updates made in March. To know how to shorten the month just look in the document created with the main command shown above.
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You can also restrict your search to a specific day:
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_Example_:
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```
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rpm -qa --last | grep Thu\ 15\ Mar
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```
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