last time apt-get update was executed

[ulysess]

I'm making a script and I want to know last time the user executed apt-get update on the system

Any idea?

[rpdom]

Have a look in /var/log/apt/history.log, it logs each time apt-get was run, with the command line used and packages were affected.

[forenbenutzer]

Maybe you could use something like

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watch "ps aux | grep apt-get"

every 10 seconds or so and scan the output for differences. Afterwards you could output the current date and time to a text file.

Edit: above solution might be better, of course.

[DeeJay]

I'm surprised that there is no elegant, supported, way of accomplishing this?

If there is no alternative to poking around 'under the covers', then it was previously discussed here - http://serverfault.com/questions/20747/ ... th-apt-get

The final solution, of looking at date stamps on files in /var/cache/apt, is the one I was about to suggest before remembering to Google for it...