Sometimes we need to find out when a package was updated on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux  (RHEL) Server. To find this we can use the rpm command.

Get the RPM Packages Update History

You can use the following command to check the update history of a particular package.

$ rpm -q <package-name> --last

Example: Below command shows the update history of kernel.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ rpm -q kernel --last
kernel-3.10.0-1127.18.2.el7.x86_64            Sun 02 Aug 2020 07:07:48 PM IST
kernel-3.10.0-1062.4.1.el7.x86_64             Sun 20 Oct 2019 10:09:48 AM IST
kernel-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64             Thu 04 Oct 2018 01:56:55 PM IST

For complete package update history use the following command.

[user@dbappweb.com ~]$ rpm -qa --last

Last Updated: Aug 04, 2020

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