Re: Who installed package "foo"?

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Mon 02 Nov 2020 at 09:52:53 (+0700), Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > 
> > > When I want to figure out what package has installed package "foo" as a
> > > dependency, is there a less barbaric method than 
> > > 
> > > apt-get -s remove foo 
> > 
> > In addition to the other answers I see, you probably have a
> > record of when it happened in /var/log/history.log
> 
> You probably mean /var/log/apt/history.log.* 
> 
> Unfortunately the information about "foo" seems to have already been rotated away.

$ grep -e '^Package:' -e 'Depends: .*\<foo\>' /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep -B1 -e 'Depends:' | less

Cheers,
David.