The “rpm” command can be used with “-aq –last” options to list the currently installed RPMs and their install date and time. The following shows output the command in my Fedora 10 Linux. This command lists the latest RPMs first.

[neo@techpulp ~]# rpm -qa --last
xinetd-2.3.14-21.fc10                         Sun 07 Dec 2008 05:21:11 PM PDT
VMware-server-1.0.7-108231                    Sat 06 Dec 2008 09:08:06 PM PDT
flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release               Sat 06 Dec 2008 05:00:27 AM PDT
mplayer-1.0-0.102.20080903svn.fc10            Fri 05 Dec 2008 03:14:56 PM PDT
libcaca-0.99-0.5.beta16.fc10                  Fri 05 Dec 2008 03:14:55 PM PDT
....
filesystem-2.4.19-1.fc10                      Thu 04 Dec 2008 09:36:50 PM PDT
setup-2.7.4-1.fc10                            Thu 04 Dec 2008 09:36:49 PM PDT
m17n-db-1.5.3-1.fc10                          Thu 04 Dec 2008 09:36:48 PM PDT
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