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Want to find out when a package like Firefox was last upgraded on your system? Try grep command to query the /var/log/apt/history.log file on your Debian based system.

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Want to find out when a package like Firefox was last upgraded on your system? Try grep command to query the /var/log/apt/history.log file on your Debian based system.
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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 20:22:47 JST nixCraft 🐧

Ever wonder when your system last updated a package when using a Debian or Ubuntu Linux? Let's check Firefox, for example. Type this:
```
grep -B4 firefox /var/log/apt/history.log
```
See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/debian-ubuntu-linux-find-package-installed-updated-date/ for more info.
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