20 lines
558 B
Python
20 lines
558 B
Python
#!/usr/bin/python
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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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# I am not reading /var/log/messages because it needs root.
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# Therefore I chose another file which allows read for standard user: dpkg.log
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# I am reading the fully installed packages from dpkg.log.
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for line in open("/var/log/dpkg.log"):
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if " installed" in line:
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print line
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# Other way of doing this
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file_descriptor = open("/var/log/dpkg.log", "r")
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for line in file_descriptor:
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if " installed" in line:
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#print line # prints full lines
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print line.split()[4]
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file_descriptor.close()
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