Linux tip:
How to find out the most recent installed packages with RPM

You probably know the last software package you installed, but are you aware of all the dependencies that were also installed?  Here's a tip to help you.

Use this command to show the newest installed packages at the top:  rpm -qa - -last

The newest packages will be at the top. Since the list is probably long, you might want to pipe the output to less:

rpm -qa - -last | less

Type q to exit less. You can also pipe the output with grep to search for a specific day or date with Jun as an example like this:

rpm -qa - -last | grep Jun

You can also pipe the request to a text file:

rpm -qa --last > filename

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