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zcat -f /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep " install " | sort
You could easily add a grep onto the end instead of the sort, to find a particular package. So something like
zcat -f /var/log/dpkg.log* | grep " install " | grep -i 'thunderbird'
2011-03-10 18:57:20 install thunderbird
2011-03-10 19:02:36 install thunderbird
2011-03-10 22:44:32 install thunderbird
2011-02-10 00:51:40 install thunderbird-locale-en-gb
2011-02-10 00:51:43 install thunderbird-locale-en-us
2010-10-10 08:43:57 install thunderbird
Wayno
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