redhat - How to list recent yum updates
2013-08
Dejan
Last night I have updated one of my RedHat systems from 6.1 to 6.2. There were a few hundred updates.
How can I list the recent updates that was applied to my system?
I have tried yum list recent but that only shows
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, subscription-manager
Updating certificate-based repositories.
Recently Added Packages
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-as-IN.noarch 2-5.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-bn-IN.noarch 2-5.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-de-DE.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-en-US.noarch 2-22.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-es-ES.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-fr-FR.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-gu-IN.noarch 2-5.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-hi-IN.noarch 2-7.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-it-IT.noarch 2-7.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ja-JP.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-kn-IN.noarch 2-8.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ko-KR.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ml-IN.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-mr-IN.noarch 2-10.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-or-IN.noarch 2-5.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-pa-IN.noarch 2-7.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-pt-BR.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-ru-RU.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-te-IN.noarch 2-7.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-CN.noarch 2-6.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-Release_Notes-6-zh-TW.noarch 2-4.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
rng-tools.x86_64 2-13.el6_2 rhel-x86_64-server-6
garyjohn
This should do it.
rpm -qa --qf '%{INSTALLTIME} %-40{NAME} %{INSTALLTIME:date}\n' | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f2-
That queries all your installed RPM packages (rpm -qa) and prints them using a format (--qf) with the time of installation first in seconds since the epoch(%{INSTALLTIME}), then the name of the package in a 40 character field, left justified (%-40{NAME}), then the installation time as a date and time (%{INSTALLTIME:date}). The result is sorted by the first time field, then that time field is removed.
Lazer
I did make install on the yum package downloaded from here.
After the installation was done, if I do yum I am getting yum: Command not found.
What should I do?
John T
Is it's install location in your $PATH environment variable? In your ~/.bash_profile you'll see a line like this:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin
add the directory of the yum binary to the end of this, separating with a colon:
PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/yum
I don't know exactly where you installed it, so modify it according to your needs.
mzuther
Try the command whereis yum which allows you to "locate the binary, source, and manual page files for a command".
Also, did you run make install as superuser? Maybe your user just doesn't have write access to install yum to its default location.